Big School-Break

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Big School-Break
Genre	romantic comedy
Running time	268 min
Creator	Gosteleradio
Written by	Aleksei Korenev, Georgi Sadovnikov
Directed by	Aleksei Korenev
Starring	Mikhail Kononov, Evgeni Leonov, Rolan Bykov, ...
Music by	Eduard Kolmanovsky
Country of origin	USSR
Language	Russian
Release date(s)	Mosfilm and T/O Ekran
No. of episodes	4
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Big School-Break (or Big Break translit. Bolshaya Peremena, Russian: 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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