- Cast & Crew
- Trialers
- About Andrei Petrov : Original Music
* Winner of Best Actor in 1979 Venice Intl. Film Festival

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute
and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin`s main
problem is that he`s a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling
his wife all the time are inconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her
the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life, but gets offended when,
for example, he cannot meet her so that he doesn`t come home late, or
when he doesn`t want to go home in a new jacket she gives him to avoid
having to explain to his wife. Alla and Nina, Andrei`s wife, both leave him,
forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with
this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up
with his lies that they don`t believe him even when he is telling the truth...