Dear Yelena Sergeyevna

Dear Yelena Sergeyevna

1988 · 94 min · RU · 7.0 (22 votes)
Dir. Eldar Ryazanov · Starring Marina Neyolova, Natalya Shchukina, Dmitriy Maryanov, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Eldar Ryazanov, Andrey Tikhomirnov · Music Gennadiy Alexsandrov
Drama

Four school graduates congratulate their teacher of mathematics Yelena Sergeyevna on her birthday and ask her to return them their graduate works on mathematics in order to change them before the marks. Yelena Sergeyevna strongly objects...

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This film feels like a pressure cooker, slowly building tension through sharp dialogue and uncomfortable silences. It's a stark, character-driven drama that probes the complexities of human relationships and moral compromise within a rigid system.

tenseuncomfortabledramaticclaustrophobicslow-burnSoviet realismchamber dramadialogue-heavymoralityeducationauthoritydisillusionment
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