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Man in a Shell
1939 3.6 (4 votes) 1h 24m
Genres
Comedy Romance
Production Companies
Belgoskino

Man in a Shell (Человек в футляре)

Overview

The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.

Key Crew

Director: Isidor Annensky

Writer: Isidor Annensky

Director of Photography: Yevgeni Shapiro

Producer: A. Petrov

Top Cast

Olga Androvskaya
Olga Androvskaya

Варвара Александровна Коваленко (Варенька)

Mikhail Zharov
Mikhail Zharov

Михаил Александрович Коваленко (учитель истории и географии)

Faina Ranevskaya
Faina Ranevskaya

жена инспектора

Aleksei Gribov
Aleksei Gribov

Афанасий (слуга Беликова)

Vladimir Gardin
Vladimir Gardin

Михаил Васильевич (директор гимназии)

Aleksandr Larikov
Aleksandr Larikov

Невыразимов (учитель)

Aleksandra Matveeva
Aleksandra Matveeva

продавщица цветов

Osip Abdulov
Osip Abdulov

Тарантулов, учитель

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