The Unamenables

Plot

Two foolish and frivolous guys cause suffering for the whole work team at the factory. It was already decided to fire Anatoly Gracchkin (Yuri Belov) and his friend Victor Gromoboev (Alexei Kozhevnikov), but they are taken under the wing by Nadia Berestova (Nadezhda Rumyantseva), a diminutive funny woman, known as the popular one at the plant.

Because of Nadia's status of a respectable and reliable person, the Komsomol members, without wasting time immediately give her the assignment to re-educate the boys. At first, Nadya takes it with reluctance and apprehension, but gradually this task becomes the most important thing in her life. She prepares for mischief-makers a daily plan and a list of books to read, brings them a lectures about marine biology, talks about Goncharov's novel Oblomov...

However, after Grachkin and Gromoboev succeed in tricking Nadya more than once, she understands that standard methods in this situation will not help.

Cast

Nadezhda Rumyantseva – Nadia Berestova

Yuri Belov – Tolya Grachkin

Alexei Kozhevnikov – Victor Gromoboev

Valentin Kozlov – Volodya Yakovlev

Vera Karpova – Rosa Katkova

Svetlana Kharitonova – Lisa Kukushkina's friend Nadi

Victor Egorov – Leon Butusov

Yuri Nikulin – Vasily Klyachkin

Konstantin Nassonov – plant director Andrei Ilich Baryshev

Ivan Kashirin – workshop master Ivan Ignatievich Vatagin

Victor Terekhov – Petya

Vladimir Zemlyanikin – Zernov

Yevgeny Bykadorov – diving coach

Lilia Gritsenko – Nadia's mother

Leonid Marennikov – waiter Pasha

Vladimir Picek – waiter

Nina Agapova – host of the dancing contest

Sergey Filippov – the policeman

Tamara Yarenko – episode

Zinaida Tarahovskaya – episode

Sasha Smirnov – boy who brought the cutter

Awards

At the All-Union Film Festival in Minsk in 1960, the film received the prize for best comedy. Also, Nadezhda Rumyantseva was awarded for the best performance of the female role and Yuri Belov for the best performance of the male role.