Splendid Days

Splendid Days is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and Igor Talankin. Plot Mother of five-year-old Seryozha has married for a second time and now Dmitri Korneyevich Korostelyov is officially his father. The boy calls Dmitri by his last name - Korostelyov, since Seryozha's stepfather also became the boy's best friend who helps solve small, but very important problems. Seryozha feels that the adult man perceives him as an independent person, can communicate with him as with a peer, respects his thoughts and acts. Korostelyov makes the boy's greatest dream come true - he buys him a bicycle. When the family begins expecting a new addition to the family - Korostelyov with Seryozha consults and discusses plans for the future. Newly born little brother Lyonya diverts all of mother's attention and worries towards himself, and Seryozha begins to feel lonely and abandoned. In addition, his parents who are moving to another city where his father has found a new place of work, are going to leave Seryozha with a neighbor because of the boy's ill throat. But all of a sudden everything is happily resolved on the day of departure ... Cast Boris Barkhatov as Sergei Sergei Bondarchuk as Dmitri Korneyevich Korostelyov, Sergei's stepfather Irina Skobtseva as Marianna, Sergei's mother Seryozha Metelitsyn as Vaska Yura Kozlov as Zhenya Lyubov Sokolova as Polina, Vaska's mother Vasili Merkuryev as Uncle Kostya, the captain of the deep voyage Aleksandra Panova as Aunt Pasha Nikolai Sergeyev as Lukyanych the accountant Clarina Frolova-Vorontsova as Aunt Zhenya Alyosha Dotsenko as Shurik Natasha Chechetkina as Lidka Valentin Bryleev as petitioner Vyacheslav Brovkin as Uncle Petya Pavel Vinnik as toy seller Margarita Zharova as Nadia Ivanova, a milkmaid Pyotr Kiryutkin as a collective farmer in the club Yevgeny Kudryashov as Alexei, projectionist