Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They rack their brains about where to find shelter and quite by chance they overhear a talk between father and son. The son is an adolescent who is head over heels in love with a girl several years his senior. He is living through the first drama of his life though his love is just puppy love. Then, being resourceful fellows, they think of a plan to pass one of them for the elder son of this family. The reason they give for his unexpected arrival is that he is a child of the father's long-forsaken love. They presume this cock-and-bull story will come off, and right they are!
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Evgeni Leonov
Andrei Grigorievich Sarafanov
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Vitaliy Melnikov Director · Aleksandr Vampilov Author Yuriy Veksler Cinematographer
United States release November 11, 1975 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Старший сын
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Старший сын
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 6, 1975
Theatrical
United States · November 11, 1975
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