Autumn Marathon

Original title: Osenniy marafon

1979
1h 30m

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Oleg Basilashvili, Natalya Gundareva, and Marina Neyolova in Autumn Marathon (1979)

Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.Middle-aged university professor desperately tries to strike a balance in his life between his wife and his mistress, slowly getting bogged down in his own lies.

Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
Writers
- Aleksandr Volodin
- Georgiy Daneliya
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7.8/10

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Director
- Georgiy Daneliya
Writers
- Aleksandr Volodin
- Georgiy Daneliya
Stars

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Awards
- 4 wins

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Trivia
Official submission of Soviet Union for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 52nd Academy Awards in 1980.

Quotes
Varvara Nikitichna: You crossed everything out.
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin: Well, just some minor things. For example, "the goat gave an inhuman squeal." That's a little too much.
Varvara Nikitichna: So, what kind of squeal?
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin: Just simply, "the goat squealed."

Connections
Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Georgy Daneliya

Soundtracks
Myla Marusenka belyye nogi
(uncredited)
Russian folk song
Performed by Evgeniy Leonov (uncredited) and Norbert Kuchinke (uncredited)

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6/10

FilmCriticLalitRao and Lee Heisenberg you not right

And what kind of opposition to the film are you talking about at all? In 1981 he was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR so that and his Awards San Sebastian Film Festival (1979) - the main prize Golden Shell and the FIPRESCI Prize Venice Film Festival (1979) - Italian Journalists Award for Best Actor (Eugene Leonov) and FIPRESCI Prize All-Union Film Festival in Dushanbe (1980) - the main prize Shamrousse International Comedy Film Festival (1980) - Grand Prize Berlin Film Festival (1980) - prize of the international evangelical jury - special recommendation (Forum program) IFF comedy films in Gabrov (1981) - special prize; State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev brothers (1981) and and there was no need to invent any problems with Danelia's employment, the film was praised very much in the USSR.