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Still Waters (2000 film)
2000 Russian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Still Waters (Russian: Тихие омуты, romanized: Tikhie omuti) is 2000 Russian romantic comedy-drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov.[1][2]
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Plot
Anton M. Kashtanov (Alexander Abdulov) is a talented surgeon and head of a large clinic. He decides to escape his domineering and bad-tempered wife Pauline in the village of Still Waters. Here he reconnects with his childhood friend, the head of the local nature reserve. This pastoral idyll is unsettled by one matter: at the time of Kashtanov's departure two million dollars have disappeared from his foundation.
Two strong women launch independent investigations: a police detective and a TV reporter...
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Cast
- Alexander Abdulov - academician Anton M. Kashtanov
- Oksana Korostishevskaya - journalist Eugenie Tobolskaya (Jackie)
- Lyubov Polishchuk - Pauline, Kashtanov's wife
- Jan Tsapnik - Vlad, the operator
- Olga Volkova - Varvara Petrovna Muromova, police detective
- Andrey Makarevich - forester
- Andrey Smolyakov - Ivan Pavlovich, Kashtanov's assistant
- Michael Dorozhkin - Nikita, Kashtanov's son from his first marriage
- Anatoly Lobotsky - Alexey Yozhikov, businessman
- Marat Basharov - traffic cop
- Alexander Pashutin - hotel employee
- Alexander Nevsky - bodyguard
- Olga Pogodina - girl smoking on balcony
- Olga Chekov - radiologist assistant
- Eldar Ryazanov - radiologist (Ryazanov was also the film's director)
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Facts
- Eldar Ryazanov said that the character of Kashtanov was modeled after Anton Chekhov.[3]
- The film was banned in Ukraine because Jan Tsapnik was declared as a danger to the country.[4]
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