This comedy two-hander by Semyon Zlotnikov was initially banned in Russia – and wasn't seen until 1989 – because (shock, horror) the romantic encounter it charted hinted at a degree of despair, disappointment and loneliness that was deemed unacceptable for public consumption.
We look at it now and it's a curiously old-fashioned vignette about middle-aged strangers and the blind date they've both pinned fading hopes on. At times it plays like one of Neil Simon's roller-coaster battle of the sexes, where humour and pathos link arms across the minefield of emerging incompatabilities in a bid to reach some kind of loving togetherness.
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