3 Movies Directed by Yuri Mamin

Fontan

Fontan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-20

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (211 Reviews)

Director:

Yuri Mamin

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Moscow. A typical Russian family. They decide to take home Maya's father: an aborigine who lives in the desert and has never seen any modern comfort, neither speaks the language. Once living in their apartment, the old man begins to act in a strange way, adoring the refrigerator and the pipelines as if they were gods.

Fontan

Fontan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-12-20

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (212 Reviews)

Director:

Yuri Mamin

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

Moscow. A typical Russian family. They decide to take home Maya's father: an aborigine who lives in the desert and has never seen any modern comfort, neither speaks the language. Once living in their apartment, the old man begins to act in a strange way, adoring the refrigerator and the pipelines as if they were gods.

Window to Paris

Window to Paris

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-02-17

Languages:

Russian, French

Countries:

Russia, France

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1050 Reviews)

Director:

Yuri Mamin

Cast:

Writer:

Vyacheslav Leykin (additional writing)

Yuri Mamin

Guy Sèligmann (adaptation)

Arkadiy Tigay

Vladimir Vardunas

Fullplot:

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?

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