Mustached Nanny () is a 1977 Soviet comedy film, feature film directorial debut of Vladimir Grammatikov. The film was a box-office hit, it was seen by 47 million viewers in 1979.

Plot

Jokester Kesha Chetvergov (Sergei Prokhanov), after graduating from school, is not able to find interesting work for himself. He did not get a higher education and failed to stay at any job for longer than two weeks. Most of his time he spends by messing around with his immature friends Bublik (Valery Kislenko), Motyl (Felix Krol) and Ponchik (Sergey Bachursky).

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Eventually, the district policeman Yevseyev (Vadim Aleksandrov), who previously sympathized with the guy and helped him with finding work, finally loses his patience and calls Innokenty to a meeting of the committee of lay judges at the Housing Committee, where his fate is to be decided.

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The public is determined to take serious measures against the young man as a parasite, but kindergarten director Marina Borisovna Mikhalchuk (Lyudmila Shagalova) stands up for him.

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Marina Borisovna convinces the assessors to give Chetvergov another chance to correct his behavior and employs Kesha in her kindergarten as a night shift nanny.

Cast

Sergei Prokhanov as Innokenty Petrovich Chetvergov (Kesha) Lyudmila Shagalova as Marina Borisovna Mikhalchuk, director of the kindergarten Elizaveta Uvarova as Arina Rodionovna, nurse

Friends of Kesha

Sergey Bachursky as Petya

Valery Kislenko as Dima

Felix Krol as Vasya

Members of the Commission on difficult adolescents

Valentin Bryleev as fellow activist

Gennady Yalovich as father of Kuroslepov

Arsen Berzin as comrade-in-arms watching TV

Bronislava Zakharova as red-haired woman activist

Tatyana Nikolaeva as female activist in a police uniform

Vadim Uryupin as red-haired male activist

Others

Vadim Aleksandrov as precinct officer Yevseyev

Nadezhda Samsonova as smart old woman

Alexander Sazhin as watchman of Kuzya

Marina Matveenko as stranger

Natalya Khorokhorina as mother of Barmaleychik

Vladimir Puchkov

Olga Grigoryeva

Klavdia Kozlenkova as Maria Stepanovna, the janitor

Leonid Trutnev as taxi driver

References

External links

Soviet musical comedy films

1970s musical comedy films

1977 directorial debut films

Gorky Film Studio films

1977 comedy films

1977 films