A story about a guy and a girl who decided to get married.They want to have their own place and live without parents. They search for apartment to live together because they can't live without each other, they're seriously falling in love, but parents are getting tougher to deal with and they forbid her to see him. He comes up with a plan to sneak into her house pretending to be her English girl-teacher named Olga with two long braids and funny voice...
Acting
Efremov's committed physical comedy in drag.
Direction
Two directors, zero tonal whiplash somehow.
Director
Vitali Fetisov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Soviet-era romantic comedy that pokes fun at bureaucratic housing shortages and parental authority without ideological punishment.
Mikhail Efremov later became one of Russia's most celebrated dramatic actors — this early farce role haunted his serious reputation for decades.