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An Easy Life

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An Easy Life
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Directed byVeniamin Dorman
Written byVladlen Bakhnov
StarringYury Yakovlev
Faina Ranevskaya
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
CinematographyKonstantin Arutyunov
Music byNikita Bogoslovsky
Distributed byGorky Film Studio
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

An Easy Life (Russian: Лёгкая жизнь, romanizedLyоgkaya zhizn') is a 1964 satirical Soviet comedy film directed by Veniamin Dorman. It was seen by 24.6 million Soviet moviegoers during its initial release.[1][2]

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A chemist by training, Alexandr Petrovich Bochkin (Yury Yakovlev) manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot" (Faina Ranevskaya). But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yuri Lebedev (Vsevolod Safonov) arrives in Moscow from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga (Ninel Myshkova), Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title. He decides to tell his friends that he is a scientist working on top-secret experiments for the government, but eventually this cover story backfires, leading to one misunderstanding after the other.

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