Big School-Break

Big School-Break
Format Romantic comedy
Created by Gosteleradio
Directed by Aleksei Korenev
Written by Aleksei Korenev, Georgi Sadovnikov
Starring Mikhail Kononov, Evgeni Leonov, Rolan Bykov
Music by Eduard Kolmanovsky
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Release date Mosfilm and T/O Ekran
Original run 1972 – 1973
Running time 268 min
No. of episodes 4

Big School-Break (or Big Break translit. Bolshaya Peremena, Russian: Большая перемена) is a Soviet 1972 TV miniseries in 4 episodes. Its USA screen name is The Long Recess, and it is loosely based on Georgi Sadovnikov's novel "Walk towards people".

Plot summary

Nestor Petrovich Severov's ego is wounded by his girl-friend, who has overtaken him in a scientific project. He starts working at a night school, having had his spot at a post-graduate program taken away by the young woman. He soon finds out that teaching adults can be very hard, especially when they aren't willing to learn.

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