Main Cast: Andrei Myagkov, Vera Vasilyeva, Alisa Freyndlikh, Panteleymon Krymov, Andrei Petrov
Release Year: 1965
Country: SU
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
Gifted with the power to perform dental procedures painlessly, through his touch alone, the young dentist in this comedy finds himself faced with a crisis of conscience. If he continues to work in his specialty, he will put the woman dentist in his area out of work, though she previously had a well-established practice. While he is mulling this quandary over, an investigating commission comes to town to try to find out about this unseemly change of loyalty among the town's dental patients. To keep from rocking the boat, he refuses to perform for the commissioners. Soon afterward, he begins his career over as a teacher of dental science. Ironically, when one of his students follows his procedures, he also shows miraculous powers of pain-free dentistry. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Cast
Andrei Myagkov
Vera Vasilyeva
Alisa Freyndlikh
Panteleymon Krymov
Andrei Petrov
Yevgeny Perov; Olga Gobzeva; Igor Kvasha; Valentin Nikulin; Leonid Dyachkov; Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina; Antonina Maksimova; Pavel Pankov; Anatoliy Shalyapin; Viktor Koltsov
Credit
Elem Klimov - Director, Alfred Shnitke - Composer (Music Score), Boris Blank - Production Designer, Alexander Volodin - Screenwriter
