Station for Two

Overview

Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...

Details

Cast

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Vera Nefyodova

Oleg Basilashvili

Platon Ryabinin

Nikita Mikhalkov

Andrey

Nonna Mordyukova

uncle Misha

Mikhail Kononov

Nikolasha

Anastasia Voznesenskaya

Yulya

Tatyana Dogileva

Marisha

Olga Volkova

Violetta

Aleksandr Shirvindt

Shurik

Raisa Etush

Lyuda

Temur Yunusov

melon seller

Stanislav Sadalskiy

station thief

Zhanna Aleksandrova

waitress

Ibragim Bargi

Senior Lieutenant

Alla Budnitskaya

Platon's wife

Pyotr Kuznetsov

Viktor Bortsov

restaurant drunk

Grigory Mikhaylov

market seller

Tatyana Ignatova

melon seller's companion

Nina Palladina

melon buyer