The catchphrases from "Office Romance"

If you want to be charged with positive, reconsider the wonderful comedy of E. Ryazanov. Surely catchy phrases from the movie "Office Romance" will cheer you up and help you cope with any difficult situation in life. And if there is no way to spend two and a half hours at the screen, then this article is for you.

A bit about comedy

In 1971, Eldar Ryazanov, together with Emil Braginsky, wrote a play entitled "Co-workers". After that, many theaters of the country staged performances on it, having gathered a huge audience. Despite the fact that leading actors were involved in the leading roles (for example, in Leningrad, Olga Volkova and Pyotr Velyaminov made a wonderful duet), Ryazanov decided to film the play. It seemed to him that those ideas that were laid down by the authors eluded the directors and actors.

In 1977, the film was released and collected a unique number of viewers at the box office - 56 million, and the catchphrases from "Office Romance" instantly scattered into quotes. Field shots became very important points, where each viewer recognized the familiar corners of Moscow. The Statistical Office, for example, where the heroes of the picture worked, was shot opposite the Central Department Store. It is important that work on the picture began in the fall, presenting the comedy to the viewer as an autumn melodrama.

Plot

The case is in the statistical office, where the head is a woman - Lyudmila Prokofievna. She is only 36 years old, but she has already earned the nickname "myrrh" because she has no other interests besides work. She is so used to commanding that upon the news that the official of the Bublyub Statistical Office died, she exclaims: "How did you die? I didn’t give such an order!" This is one of the famous phrases from the film "Office Romance", characterizing the director Kalugin.

A shy employee named Novoseltsev has no prospects for career growth, but at the same time one brings up two children, struggling from paycheck to paycheck. His friend and colleague named Olga Ryzhova, who is in love with Yuri Samokhvalov, Kalugina’s deputy deputy, advises her boss to go for a promotion. No one could have imagined that as a result of closer communication between an inconspicuous employee and suppressing the feminine principle of a leader, an office romance could arise.

Meet Novoseltsev

Ryazanov did not conduct any castings, the actors for the main roles were identified immediately. So, for 40-year-old Novoseltsev A. Myagkov was invited, who successfully starred in the director’s previous comedy - “The Irony of Fate”. Glasses, antennae and licked hair turned the darling of women into a real nonsense, which Novoseltsev appears at the beginning of the picture. One of the most quoted phrases from the movie "Office Romance":

I have children. I have two of them: a boy and ... um ... de ... also a boy. (A. Novoseltsev).

And here is his attitude to work:

Personally, I go to the service only because she ennobles me.

In the picture below you can read his dialogue with director Kalugina.

At the beginning of the article, an excerpt from the conversation between Novoseltsev and Lyudmila Prokofievna is also presented, where Anatoly Efremovich, during unofficial communication, conveys the collective's opinion about her. Funny, isn't it? The time has come to get to know the director of the institution.

Meet Lyudmila Prokofievna

We bring to your attention several phrases from the movie "Office Romance" dedicated to the director Kalugina. Her brilliantly played A. Freindlich, who once invited Ryazanov to audition for the "Hussar Ballad", but gave the role of L. Golubkina. Since then, he dreamed of meeting with his beloved actress, and "Office Romance" was a wonderful occasion for this.

In the course of the film, a transformation is taking place with Kalugina. From a director, puzzled only by production processes, she turns into a real woman, for whom the attention of men, colleagues and her main admirer, Novoseltseva, is important.

One of the most quoted statements today is the words of Kalugina herself:

I have such an impeccable reputation that it's time for me to compromise.

On the way to becoming a charming, charismatic lady, the heroine Freindlich takes several lessons from her secretary Vera, which is always funny and funny. Introducing a small dialogue:

- Chest forward! - Chest? You flatter me, Vera. - Everyone flatter you!

But what compliments she now receives!

Verochka

This is one of the most successful works of Leah Akhedzhakova. The actress absolutely did not fit the character to the character, who was supposed to look like a tall, charming girl. And in which on the eve there was a personal drama - a divorce. Filming Akhedzhakova in The Irony of Fate, Ryazanov decided to make the woman who would give Kalugina advice on the path to her transformation from a small actress with a specific appearance. And this distinguished the feature film from theatrical productions, becoming its hallmark.

One of the most interesting phrases spoken by Verochka was the one where she talks with Kalugina:

“Have you bought new boots, Vera?” - Yes, I haven’t decided yet, Lyudmila Prokofievna. You like? - Very challenging. I wouldn’t take those. And in your place I would be interested in boots not during work, but after it. - So, good boots, we must take.

The secretary’s personal drama remained largely behind the scenes of the film, but this did not prevent her from becoming one of the most striking characters. Here, for example, is another dialogue with Kalugina:

- Verochka, you will be fifty years old - we will also collect you! - I will not live, I am in harmful work!

Olga Ryzhova and Yuri Samokhvalov

A married lady who has met her former fellow student falls in love with him. And he writes letters, although he has long been married. This lady "in terrible roses" is piercingly played by Svetlana Nemolyaeva. The hero of her novel is Kalugina’s deputy named Yuri Samokhvalov, whose role is played by Oleg Basilashvili. Once Ryazanov wanted to see him in the image of Hippolytus, so in his new film he seemed to be returning the debt to a brilliant actor.

One of the best phrases from "Office Romance" that characterize Ryzhova was the following:

“You're smart.” - When a woman is told that she is smart, does this mean that she is a round fool? (dialogue with Novoseltsev).

Samokhvalov behaves meanly towards Ryzhova, having made public her letters. He is an ordinary careerist, about which all his words have already said:

The new boss begins by repairing his own office.

When he passes letters to a trade union activist named Shura, even she is surprised at his act:

- But this is very personal ... - Well, I don’t have anything that I have to hide from the team!

Union activist named Shura

The image created by Lyudmila Ivanova is so vivid that it is impossible not to say about it.

Her heroine developed such a rapid social activity that she had long forgotten which department she was in. Phrases from "Office Romance" tell us about this:

“Shura, if my memory serves me right, are you in bookkeeping?” “In my opinion, yes ...” “Do you remember that well?” “Yes, in my opinion ... (dialogue with Kalugina).

The heroine of Ivanova constantly collects money for funerals or anniversaries, acquires unthinkable gifts, falling into comical situations. On this occasion, in response to the replica, to hand over another 50 kopecks, Novoseltsev remarked remarkably: if on this day someone else is born or dies, he will simply be left without lunch.

The saddest development for Shurochka is the fact that she was "exiled" to the accounting department.

Favorite phrases from Office Romance

In one article it is impossible to cite all the interesting statements from the film that have gone to the people and have become frequent in using quotes. "Office Romance" became a film where dialogues are written so expertly, noting the various aspects of Soviet life, that I want to return to them again and again. Some sites conduct surveys, assigning certain phrases a certain rating. Note the most recognized:

• "If there were no statistics in the world, we would not even suspect how well we work!"
• "She doesn’t know that there are children in the world. She is absolutely sure: they immediately appear as adults, in accordance with the staffing, position and a certain salary."
• "I have been dear to you for several days now ..."
• "- Where is your door here? - Where you need it, there is a door!"
• "Please do not interrupt! I will beat myself."

Ryazanov and Braginsky managed to recreate the mood and atmosphere of the whole country in the play. This is felt in every line, so many phrases have sunk into the souls of the audience. Like a wonderful song, the words of which were written by Eldar Alexandrovich, posing as the creation of William Blake. It was under this authorship that he brought poetry to Andrei Petrov, the composer who created the leitmotif of the entire film. We are talking about the legendary lines that "nature has no bad weather."