Returning to an empty apartment after work, Kurochkin remembers that today is his birthday. Pyotr Ivanovich pours wine into glasses and remembers his youth, the friends with whom he fought, his wife who could not get along with him, his daughter.
Vladimir Muravyov
Kurochkin
Valentina Kalinina
(voice)
Yuri Puzyryov
(voice)
Mikhail Zimin
(voice)
Larisa Zhukovskaya
(voice)
Tamara Mikheeva
(voice)
Returning to an empty apartment after work, Kurochkin remembers that today is his birthday. Pyotr Ivanovich pours wine into glasses and remembers his youth, the friends with whom he fought, his wife who could not get along with him, his daughter.
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