Office Romance. Our Time
Office Romance. Our Time (Russian: Служебный роман. Наше время, romanized: Sluzhebny roman. Nashe vremya) is a 2011 Russian-Ukrainian romantic comedy film directed by Sarik Andreasyan. It is a remake of the 1977 Soviet film Office Romance, directed by Eldar Ryazanov.[2][3]
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| Directed by | Sarik Andreasyan |
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| Music by | Dr. Tash |
| Cinematography | Pyotr Bratersky |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Russia, Ukraine |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $11 829 672[1] |
Plot
Lyudmila Kalugina is a ruthless businesswoman, owner of a credit rating agency. Anatoly Novoseltsev is a financial analyst, fanatical biker and father of two children. A colleague and friend of Novoseltsev, Olga Petrovna Ryzhova, tries to convince him of the fact that he is worthy of being head of the department. During her years as a university student, she dated the new deputy director, Yuri Samokhvalov. This trio - Novoseltsev, Samokhvalov and Olga - studied in the same group at the university. Having met his old friend, Samokhvalov tries to promote him to the head of the department, taking advantage of his position and influence on Kalugina. All attempts to influence her are ineffectual. Employees call her "our frump" behind her back. In Novoseltsev, she sees a sluggish and unemployed employee. Samokhvalov suggests that he slightly flirt with the harsh businesswoman to advance in his career, and invites both heroes to go to Turkey to an after-work party, where he tries to get them together. Offended that Kalugina ignores his courtship, drunk Anatoly Efremovich arranges a scandal and in the presence of the guests calls her "hard" and "heartless", and then drops her into the pool.
The next day Novoseltsev and Kalugina find themselves in the same caravan of a cable car, which, by coincidence, stops suddenly. In conversation for the expectation of fixing the funicular, the man tries to apologize, but he does it so clumsily that he makes Lyudmila Prokofievna cry. He tries to calm her down, and she tells him about her solitude. At this point, the heroes, who had recently experienced mutual hostility, make the first step towards each other. Anatoly Efremovich continues to make romantic advances towards the boss — first from the desire to get a promotion, but later he develops real feelings. And Ryzhova still has not forgotten her old flame Samokhvalov, which becomes public knowledge because of a conflict between the latter and Novoseltsev. They quarrel with Kalugina. Samokhvalov is fired for a sex-tape, in which he makes love in the office of a businesswoman with a woman similar to her (it turns out to be Ryzhova in a wig). And he himself turns out to be an agent from a competing firm, whose task was to undermine the reputation of the agency.
At the decisive moment Samohvalov with the help of Ryzhova replaces the flash drive with a presentation left by Novoseltsev, on a flash drive with the same video. After learning about everything, he rushes to the place of presentation on his motorcycle, but loses the drive which was hanging on his neck. As a result, he has to improvise using hand-gestures, with the attendance of guests present, to draw diagrams and graphics from the presentation, which he himself made. After the presentation, Anatoly Efremovich makes a proposal to Kalugina by using economic terms, she answers it with a note on the tablet, the image of which is displayed on a large screen, visible to everyone.
In the epilogue, the couple is riding a motorbike in Moscow.
Cast
Lead roles
- Svetlana Khodchenkova — Lyudmila Prokofievna Kalugina
- Volodymyr Zelensky — Anatoly Efremovich Novoseltsev
- Marat Basharov — Yuri Samokhvalov
- Anastasia Zavorotnyuk — Olga Ryzhova
- Pavel Volya — Vadik, secretary of Kalugina
- Sofya Hilkova — Katya Novoseltseva, the eldest daughter of Anatoly Novoseltsev
- Veronika Vakulinskaya — Masha Novoseltseva, the youngest daughter of Anatoly Novoseltsev
Supporting roles
- Nikita Salopin — investor
- Evgeny Koshevoi — Stepan, System Administrator
- Sergey Pomerantsev — Valery Volkov, employee
- Ekaterina Mikhailova — saleswoman in the store
- Denis Onshin — office employee
- Irina Frolova — employee of the office
- Olesya Ostapenko is an office worker
- Anna Azarova — "badger"
- Ivan Okhlobystin — psychologist
- Alika Smekhova — woman on the session
- Timur Rodriguez — host of the party
- Dmitry Khrustalev — guest at the party
- Sergey Kazanin — the presenter of the presentation
- Maria Syomkina — Anna, hostess of a competing agency
Reception
The film received mostly negative reviews in Russian media.[4]