About the film
Gena, a confident ladies' man, decides that his cousin Pasha has been single long enough. He dresses him in fashionable clothes and teaches him a trick for meeting women in the street: walk up and ask, very seriously, 'Where is the nofelet?'
The question makes people stop and think, and that is all Gena needs. But Pasha does not want a quick romance. He is quietly in love with a woman he sees every morning on the bus, and he has never spoken to her.
Written by Anatoly Eyramdzhan, a master of small Soviet comedies, the film is gentle and funny, and it shows ordinary late-1980s Moscow life very clearly.
Did you know?
- 'Nofelet' is simply 'telefon' (telephone) spelled backwards.
- The music is by Alexander Zatsepin.
- Vladimir Menshov, director of Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, has a small role.
