Office Romance

1977 [RUSSIAN]

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 95% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 8.2/10 10 11515 11.5K

1970s

Director

Eldar Ryazanov Photo
Eldar Ryazanov

Top cast

Tatyana Yegorova Photo
Tatyana Yegorova as Samokhvalov's Guest
Andrey Myagkov Photo
Andrey Myagkov as Anatoliy Efremovich Novoseltsev
Yevgeni Zhukov Photo
Yevgeni Zhukov as Samokhvalov's Guest
Liya Akhedzhakova Photo
Liya Akhedzhakova as Verochka

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by deeanaid 9 / 10

A simple great movie

It's really a great movie especially if you love old romantic movies!! Romantic and funny and illustrates perfectly the work environment and organization from '77. Excellent actor performances and great story line. It made me think at first at the "The taming of the shrew" story. A romance that brings a smile on your face and you can watch on a rainy day. Although I'm not a fan of Russian movies it made me search for other Russian movies and this one remains a "must see". I really liked the male character and his clumsiness and also the shyness of the female main character and to observe people way of thinking and ethics of that period . I'd watched it again in a few years!
Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 9 / 10

there's a trick here

Eldar Ryazanov's "Sluzhebnyy roman" ("Office Romance" in English) had me properly fooled early on. I assumed that it was going to be a Soviet version of "The Apartment". It turns out that there's a number of surprises on the way, many of them cartoonish. This story of a love affair between maladroit statistician Anatoly Novoseltsev (Andrey Myagkov) and stern boss Lyudmila Kalugina (Alisa Freindlich) hits all the right notes. Overall it comes across as a spoof of day-to-day work in the Soviet Union. It could easily get shown as a double-bill with "The Apartment", "9 to 5", or the opening segment in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life". Really funny.
Reviewed by hte-trasme 9 / 10

Works really well

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