The Garage is a Soviet 1979 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Ryazanov

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union....

. Based on a screenplay by Emil Braginsky.

Plot summary

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...

Cast

• Liya Akhedzhakova
  Liya Akhedzhakova
  Liya Medzhidovna Akhedzhakova is a Soviet and Russian actress who is famous both for theater and cinema.-Biography:Akhedzhakova was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. She grew up in a theatrical family in Maykop. Her Father Majid Salehovich Ahedzhakov was the principal director and her mother an...
  
   as Malayeva, junior scientific associate
• Iya Savvina as Anikeyeva
• Svetlana Nemolyayeva as Guskov's Wife
• Valentin Gaft
  Valentin Gaft
  Valentin Yosifovich Gaft is a Russian and Soviet actor, People's Artist of Russia .-Biography:Valentin Gaft was born in Moscow to a family of a lawyer Iosif Romanovich Gaft and Gita Davydovna Gaft . The family moved to Moscow from Poltava, Ukraine...
  
   as Sidorin, Head of Cooperative
• Andrey Myagkov
  Andrey Myagkov
  Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov is a Soviet/Russian film and theater actor. He is best known for his roles in famous films directed by Eldar Ryazanov, such as The Irony of Fate , Office Romance , The Garage and A Cruel Romance .-Biography:Andrey Myagkov was born on July 8, 1938 in Leningrad, USSR...
  
   as Khvostov
• Georgi Burkov
  Georgi Burkov
  Georgi Ivanovich Burkov was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1967 and 1988. He died on July 19, 1990 at the age of 57 due to thrombosis.-Selected filmography:Actor* Liberation * Stariki-razboyniki...
  
   as Vitaly Fetisov
• Leonid Markov as Professor Smirnovsky
• Vyacheslav Nevinnyy as Karpukhin
• Anastasiya Voznesenskaya as Market Director
• Semyon Farada
  Semyon Farada
  Semyon L'vovich Ferdman, better known by his stage name Semyon Farada was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.- Early life :Ferdman was born into the Jewish family of Army officer Lev Ferdman and pharmacist Ida Shuman. His father died when Semyon was 14. Later he tried to pursue a military...
  
   as Trombonist (Trombon Player)
• Igor Kostolevsky
  Igor Kostolevsky
  Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky is a prominent Russian movie and stage actor. He has won the People's Artist of Russia title which is the highest honor for any actor/actress in the USSR and then the Russian Federation...
  
   as Miloserdov's Son
• Olga Ostroumova
  Olga Ostroumova
  Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova is a Russian and Soviet actress, best known for her roles in films Monday Sure Will Come , The Dawns Here Are Quiet and Vasily and Vasilisa...
  
   as Marina
• Gleb Strizhenov
  Gleb Strizhenov
  Gleb Aleksandrovich Strizhenov was a Soviet actor, Honoured Artist of the RSFSR. He was born in Voronezh, USSR. Oleg Strizhenov, who is also an actor, was his brother.-Filmography:*Per Aspera Ad Astra*Garazh...
  
   as Yakubov
• Borislav Brondukov
  Borislav Brondukov
  Boryslav Brondukov was a Ukrainian and Soviet film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.He was born in the village of Dubava somewhere in Kiev oblast of Ukrainian SSR in a Russian-Polish family...
  
   as The Groom
• Natalya Gurzo as Natasha