Soviet parents: 'Here's our kid, see you in six months.' What could go wrong?
The parents of thirteen-year-old Andrei went on a six-month business trip abroad and rented an apartment to Nina Korableva, a kindergarten music teacher, to look after the boy. They became friends very quickly.
Acting
Elena Fetisenko's effortless warmth as the accidental guardian.
Production
Authentic late-Soviet apartment life, no nostalgia filter.
Director
Viktor Kryuchkov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects genuine Soviet-era 'kommunalka' communal living and the casualness of collective childcare—strangers becoming family was almost policy.
Director Viktor Kryuchkov was primarily known for documentary work; this rare fiction outing keeps that observational, unhurried eye.
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