WE'LL LIVE TIL MONDAY (DVD NTSC)

Gorky Filmstudio, 1968, 101 min. Fully restored. Language: Russian. Directed by Stanislav Rostotsky. Starring: V. Tikhonov, I. Pechernikova, N. Menshikova, D. Scherbakov, I. Starygin, L. Sokolova and others.Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an English language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, saying that she is in love with him. Frustrated by the situation, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to be the last week of Melnikov's teaching career, the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...