The Blonde Around the Corner

The Blonde Around the Corner (Russian: Блондинка за углом; Blondinka za uglom) is a 1984 Soviet romantic comedy film directed by Vladimir Bortko. It tells the story of an astrophysicist who begins to work at a grocery store where he falls in love with a saleswoman.^[1] The film became Bortko's breakthrough.^[2]

Cast

• Tatyana Dogileva as Nadezhda
• Andrey Mironov as Nikolay Gavrilovich Poryvaev
• Mark Prudkin as Gavrila Maksimovich, Nikolay's father
• Yevgeniya Khanayeva as Tatyana Vasilyevna, Nikolay's mother
• Yelena Solovey as Regina
• Anatoly Slivnikov as Gena 'Crocodile', Nadezhda's brother
• Baadur Tsuladze as Rashid Rashidovich
• Anatoly Ravikovich as Store clerk

References

1. Chernyshova, Natalya (2013). Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era. London: Routledge. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-0-415-68754-6.
2. "Блондинка за углом". Kinotyr (in Russian). Retrieved 2016-04-24.