Georgi SHENGELIA
Георгий ШЕНГЕЛИЯ
Gueorgui CHENGUELIA
Russia / USA, 1992, 93mn 
Colour, fiction
Menyaly
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Менялы

 

 Menyaly

 Les Changeurs

 
Directed by : Georgi SHENGELIA (Георгий ШЕНГЕЛИЯ)
Writing credits : Aleksey TIMM (Алексей ТИММ)
 
Cast
Renat DAVLETYAROV (Ренат ДАВЛЕТЬЯРОВ)
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН)
Andrey PONOMAREV (Андрей ПОНОМАРЕВ)
 
Produced by : Aleksandr_4 MIKHAYLOV (Александр_4 МИХАЙЛОВ)
 

Plot synopsis
In the USSR at the time of the monetary reforms of 1961. One hundred rubles "reduced" to ten. But this monetary reform did not stop there. The enterprising administrator of the Park of Culture and Leisure Prokhor Ignatevich, eager to make his capital grow, tries to change a tidy sum into small copper coins, with the help of the naive driver Jory Grakin and the former convict Roland Babaskin…