Still Waters (2000 film)

Still Waters
Still Waters
Directed by	Eldar Ryazanov
Written by	Eldar Ryazanov ; Emil Braginsky
Produced by	Anatoli Papanov; Leonid Bitz
Starring	Aleksandr Abdulov; Andrey Smolyakov; Lyubov Polishchuk
Cinematography	Nikolay Nemolyaev; Lomer Akhvlediani
Music by	Mikael Tariverdiev; Bulat Okudzhava; Sergey Nikitin
Production; companies	film studio "Luch"; film studio "Gulliver"; film studio "TriT"
Release date	2000;
Running time	132 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Still Waters (Russian: Тихие омуты, romanized: Tikhie omuti) is 2000 Russian romantic comedy-drama directed by Eldar Ryazanov.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Anton M. Kashtanov (Alexander Abdulov) is a talented surgeon and head of a large clinic. He decides to escape his domineering and bad-tempered wife Pauline in the village of Still Waters. Here he reconnects with his childhood friend, the head of the local nature reserve. This pastoral idyll is unsettled by one matter: at the time of Kashtanov's departure two million dollars have disappeared from his foundation.

Two strong women launch independent investigations: a police detective and a TV reporter...

Cast

Alexander Abdulov - academician Anton M. Kashtanov
Oksana Korostishevskaya - journalist Eugenie Tobolskaya (Jackie)
Lyubov Polishchuk - Pauline, Kashtanov's wife
Jan Tsapnik - Vlad, the operator
Olga Volkova - Varvara Petrovna Muromova, police detective
Andrey Makarevich - forester
Andrey Smolyakov - Ivan Pavlovich, Kashtanov's assistant
Michael Dorozhkin - Nikita, Kashtanov's son from his first marriage
Anatoly Lobotsky - Alexey Yozhikov, businessman
Marat Basharov - traffic cop
Alexander Pashutin - hotel employee
Alexander Nevsky - bodyguard
Olga Pogodina - girl smoking on balcony
Olga Chekov - radiologist assistant
Eldar Ryazanov - radiologist (Ryazanov was also the film's director)

Facts

Eldar Ryazanov said that the character of Kashtanov was modeled after Anton Chekhov.^[3]
The film was banned in Ukraine because Jan Tsapnik was declared as a danger to the country.^[4]