Big School-Break

Infobox Television Film
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name = Big School-Break


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format = romantic comedy
runtime = 268 min
creator = Gosteleradio
director = Aleksei Korenev
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writer = Aleksei Korenev, Georgi Sadovnikov
starring = Mikhail Kononov, Evgeni Leonov, Rolan Bykov, ...
music = Eduard Kolmanovsky
country = flagicon|USSR USSR
language = Russian
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released = Mosfilm and T/O Ekran
first_aired = 1972
last_aired = 1973
num_episodes = 4
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imdb_id = 0068304
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Big School-Break (or Big Break translit. "Bolshaya Peremena", _ru. Большая перемена) is a Soviet 1972 TV miniseries in 4 episodes. USA screen name - The Long Recess. Loosely based on a novel "Walk towards people" by Georgi Sadovnikov.

Plot summary

Self-respect of Nestor Petrovich Severov is wounded by a girl, who had overtook him in a scientific project as a scientist. He starts working at school, a school for adults, having had his spot at a post graduate program taken away by the young woman. He soon finds out that teaching adult can be very hard especially when they aren't willing to learn. The plot progresses from there.

Cast

* Mikhail Kononov as "Nestor Severov, the history teacher"
* Evgeni Leonov as "Stepan Lednyov"
* Rolan Bykov as "Petrykin"
* Aleksandr Zbruyev as "Ganzha"
* Svetlana Kryuchkova as "Nelli"
* Yuri Kuzmenkov as "Fedoskin"
* Natalya Bogunova as "Svetlana Afanasyevna"
* Natalya Gvozdikova as "Polina"
* Saveli Kramarov as "Timokhin"
* Viktor Proskurin as "Gena Lyapishev"
* Valeri Nosik as "Otto Fukin"
* Nina Maslova as "Korovyanskaya"
* Iren Azer as "Lyus'ka"
* Valeri Khlevinsky as "Avdotyin"
* Lyudmila Kasatkina as "The School Director"
* Mikhail Yanshin as "Professor Volosyuk"
* Valentina Sperantova as "The School Janitor"
* Lev Durov as "Militiaman"
* Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as "Valya, Petrykin's bride"
* Lev Dubov as Engineer
* Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya, Valentina Talyzina, Nina Zhilina, Lyudmila Antsiferova, Valentina Kuznetsova as "The School Teachers"
* Vladimir Basov, Elya Baskin, M. Koreneva, V. Garin, Nikolai Grabbe, Ivan Ryzhov, A. Irichyov, A. Kutuzov, Gotlib Roninson, Ya. Yakobson, Igor Surovtsev, Mikhail Rozanov, Galina Komarova, Aleksandr Zimin, Larisa Barabanova, Zoya Stepanova, Natalya Gurzo, Valentina Ananyina, Z. Isayeva, Svetlana Starikova, Tamara Loginova, A. Kaluzhsky

External links

* [http://www.levdurov.ru/show_arhive.php?&id=1223 Bolshaya Peremena 35 years ago]
* [http://www.levdurov.ru/show_arhive.php?id=523 How Bolshaya Peremena was filming] at Lev Durov official web-site