The Cook (1966)

May. 23,1966

6.4

| Comedy Romance

Based on the play of the same name by Anatoly Sofronov. In one of the Kuban collective farms, a new beauty-cook has appeared. Many began to look after her, but the girl was not a timid dozen and quickly gave a turn to the unlucky boyfriends from the gate. However, true love found a way to her heart, and although human envy and stupidity have done many troubles, the lovers still managed to unravel this complex tangle of misunderstandings.

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Cast

Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Pavlina Khutornaya

[2012] The Girl and Death [1998] The Diamond Arm [1979] The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed [1976] You to Me, Me to You [1971] Hold on to the Clouds [1966] The Cook

Lyudmila Khityaeva as Galina Sakhno

[1978] A Dog Was Walking on the Piano [1975] Finest, the Brave Falcon [1967] Two Years above the Abyss [1966] The Cook [1961] Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka [1958] Kochubey

Inna Churikova as Varvara

[2022] Peppermint Gingerbread [2015] The Best Day Ever [2015] No Borders [2015] The Land of OZ [2003] Bless the Woman [1995] What a Mess!

Reviews

Jeanskynebu

1966/05/23

the audience applauded

Baseshment

1966/05/24

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fatma Suarez

1966/05/25

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Deanna

1966/05/26

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.