The Garage

The Garage (1979)

Гараж

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...

Date of release
1979-11-23
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (101)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Eldar Ryazanov

Casting

  • Liya Akhedzhakova — Елена Павловна Малаева, младший научный сотрудник
  • Iya Savvina — Лидия Владимировна Аникеева, член правления, замдиректора НИИ
  • Valentin Gaft — Сидорин, председатель гаражного кооператива, ветврач
  • Svetlana Nemolyaeva — жена Гуськова
  • Georgi Burkov — Виталий Кузьмич Фетисов, мастер-золотые руки
  • Vyacheslav Nevinnyy — Карпухин, научный сотрудник
  • Andrey Myagkov — Семен Александрович Хвостов, лаборант, потерявший голос
  • Leonid Markov — Павел Константинович Смирновский, завлабораторией, отец Марины
  • Igor Kostolevskiy — сын Милосердова, археолог
  • Olga Ostroumova — Марина, дочь Смирновского
  • Anastasia Voznesenskaya — Алла Алексеевна Кушакова, директор рынка
  • Gleb Strizhenov — Александр Григорьевич Якубов, ветеран Великой Отечественной войны

Interesting facts

The Garage is a Soviet 1980 comedy-drama film directed by Eldar Ryazanov, based on a screenplay by Emil Braginsky.

Production

Director Eldar Ryazanov got the idea for the movie after a meeting for the parking garage co-operative of Mosfilm employees. The director expected the meeting to last only 30 minutes, but it instead lasted the whole day. He returned in a state of shock because of the way that the artists, including those with reputations as decent and intelligent people, behaved when they learned that some of them would have to give up their parking spots.

His alter ego in the film is Professor Smirnovsky, who sees the injustice of what is happening but does nothing about it.

As in all his movies, Eldar Ryazanov acted in a minor role: he played the head of the insect department who overslept the whole meeting and drew the unfortunate lot at the end of the film.

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