White Dew

White Dew (Russian: Белые Росы, Belarussian: Белыя росы) is a Soviet 1983 comedy film directed by Igor Dobrolyubov.

It was chosen as comedy of the year by Soviet Screen.

Plot
A small Belarusian village White Dew is becoming absorbed into a big town. In it lives an honored and respected man Fedos Khodas (Vsevolod Sanaev). He has long been a widower, and his three sons have grown up. Fedos is worried about them. Senior Andrew (Gennady Garbuk) is a solid man but too calculating. Merry Vaska (Nikolai Karachentsov) may lose his family because his wife Marousia (Galina Polskikh) was meeting with her ex-lover in his absence. Middle one – Sasha (Michael Kakshonav), went to the Kuril Islands, and for 15 years was not at home. Events unfold in the background concerning the village characters and their resettlement in the city apartments.

The village is preparing for a quick demolition, and its inhabitants - for resettlement in typical high-rise buildings. The central conflict is the love triangle, which nearly destroyed the family of one of the siblings.

A respected man in the village - the 80-year-old veteran of labor and three wars Fedor (Fedos) Filimonovich Khodas (Vsevolod Sanaev) worries about the fate of his three sons. He was a widower for a long time, his sons grew up. Senior Andrei (Gennady Garbuk) is a solid person, but overly calculating. Average, Sashka (Mikhail Kokshenov) leads a nomadic life, has not been home for 15 years. The younger, Vasily (Nikolai Karachentsov), is a joker and a merry fellow.

The original directorial move is the transfer of events shown through the dream of heroes.

Residents of the village of White Dew, in which the main events take place, receive warrants for apartments in a high-rise building in the city, which is gradually absorbing the village. This forces Fedos and his neighbors to start living a city life different from their usual way.

Vasily, who returns to White Dew after three days of absenteeism to the city, where his friend invited him to play his third wedding in accordion, learns from Andrei that in his absence Marusa (Galina Polskikh) came to his wife who returned to White Dew her former boyfriend is Mishka Kisel (Stanislav Sadalsky).

Glancing home for a short while, seeing his beloved daughter Galya and talking with his wife, Vasily goes to his father. Fedos did not approve of this marriage, but Vasily loves his daughter and is not happy with the decision of his wife to divorce. Vasily cannot talk heart to heart with his wife, influence her.

At this time, Mishka and Marusya sort things out. At one time, Mishka left White Roses to mine gold, then he was convicted and fell down a forest. Now, having returned and having learned that Maroussia is married to Vasily, whom he envies, is again going to leave for gold mining. It’s cold, hard work, Mishka has no living conditions to take Marusya with him, but there is gold. Maroussia splashes a grudge against Mishka because he left her pregnant, disappeared and did not write. Bear is offended that Maroussia did not wait for him. Maroussia, who gave birth to a daughter, convincing everyone that she was born seven months old, is torn between feelings - duties towards Vasily, who hid her shame and loves the girl, and feelings towards Mishka. Finally, she tells him that the daughter is from him. Bear continues to convince Marusya that he still loves her.

In connection with the imminent receipt of warrants for apartments, the father is going to have a family council, which, in addition to Fedos and Vasily, is attended by Andrei and his wife, who are trying to get more benefits for themselves in this situation - if the father is more worried about the new housing area, so that he can drive close to his wife’s grave, Andrei’s wife is more interested in how to get rid of a cow, but Andrey has already agreed to adapt his house to a summer cottage and is ready to sell his father’s house to his boss, for demolition. During a skirmish between Andrei and Vasily, who does not like the behavior of his brother, the true purpose of Andrei’s visit is revealed - they should get a two-room apartment, and Fedos - a one-room apartment; Andrei, who is a member of the city executive committee, is trying to persuade his father to move to them - so they will get a three-room apartment. Fedos does not agree, he does not want to push Andrei to sin, forcing him to wait for his death. Fedos is also waiting for Sasha, whom, as he feels correctly, Andrei will not want to take to his house. The news that Vasily is going to get a divorce and leave the house to his daughter, coupled with a reminder of the childlessness of his wife Andrei, finally quarrels with his brother and father.

Radiculitis aggravated by Fedos is taken to cure neighbor Timothy - a brick heated in a decoction of herbs. The treatment put Fedos on his feet, but did not help in general, so Vasily undertook to collect the bees. While catching bees, Vasily met Mishka, with whom there was a skirmish and who in the heat of the day said that Galyunya was his daughter. For this, Vaska planted a bee on Mishka’s face, and Mishka Vaska - a bruise. Having returned home, Vasily first of all tries to compare Galya with himself in the mirror to find a refutation of Mishka’s words, and looks for similarities with himself.

The role of the negotiator in the relationship of the younger brother is assumed by the father. He meets with Mishka, finds out his attitude to Marusa and his daughter, and decides that Vasily will go to Fedos the next day, and Mishka will move to Marusya, whom he will marry, in a couple of days. Another condition of Fedos - his granddaughter should not know anything about Mishka, as about his father. After that, the old man brings the decision to his son. Unexpectedly for everyone, Galyun comes to Mishka’s house and talks with his mother. The child came to offer his doll so that “Galyunin’s Bear didn’t hammer the folder”.

Basil can not talk with Marusya and agrees to go divorce in the morning. In the morning he takes Galya to Fedos with a request to look after her, and if he and Marusya don’t divorce for dinner, feed her something.

In order to speed up the divorce and give credibility in court, Vasily agrees to lie - he asks Marusya to say that he drinks, does not happen at home and does not look after his daughter. To make it more convincing, leaving Marusya to wait for him in court, he goes to the store to buy a drink, but, returning, intercepts the pram rushing towards the intersection. The stroller falls, but instead of the child in it lie empty bottles that break. The man who drove them in begins to scandal. Vasily enters into a skirmish and throws a bottle at the offender, which falls into the glass of a passing car. In the people's court, Vaska receives 15 days of arrest.

At night, without saying goodbye to Marusya, Mishka left White Roses. With this news, Andrei comes to Vaska, who at that time is painting the public fence. Under the pretext of drinking beer from a barrel, Vasily persuades Andrei to exchange jackets with him for half an hour and rushes home to see his daughter.

It’s hard for Fedos to move to an apartment — he needs to leave the house, determine the property, sell the cow. Frustrated, he returns home, where his neighbor Timothy meets him and offers to drink tincture for rubbing his back. To check if the tincture is poisoned, the neighbor moistens a piece of bread and throws the yard dog Valet, which eats this piece. Old people drink, talk about a new life in the apartment, at this time comes mother-in-law Timofey with the news that Valet is dead. The old men race to the city, where they are taken to the hospital by ambulance and washed their stomachs. Upon returning, they meet a living Jack, who was simply thawed by vodka and he fell asleep in the yard.

Vasily, having talked with his family, who had already moved into the apartment during his time in prison, returns to community service, where he discovers that Andrei, who replaced him, has already been taken to the cell for the night. The night spent in the cell and the dream he saw change Andrei’s worldview - he is ready to leave his wife and offers Vaska to go have a drink with him.

Vaska returned from the police to his old house, in principle, not wanting to go either to his wife’s apartment (until she calls him herself), or to her father’s house.

Sashka returns home, whom his father obliges to marry. Sasha agrees, but asks first to pick up the bride. Fedos was waiting for such a turn and continues to develop his plan - the postman Verka Matrunina (Natalya Khorokhorina), a classmate of Sashka, received the apartment a floor higher. At first the match went not very well: they even brought Verka to tears, there was a little scandal. But soon they manage to agree.

After the wedding, Maroussia comes to Vasily and asks him to return. Vasily agrees and asks to prepare a sleeping place for his father, who has nowhere to sleep.

After Sashkin’s wedding, at the end of the day, at sunset, old Fedos thanks the Sun for his life and asks for light and warmth for the children.

Cast

 * Vsevolod Sanayev – Fedos Hodas
 * Nikolai Karachentsov – Vasiliy (Vaska), the youngest son
 * Mikhail Kokshenov – Aleksander (Sashka), the middle son
 * Gennady Garbuk – Andrei, the eldest son
 * Boris Novikov – Timofei
 * Galina Polskikh – Marousia, wife of Vasiliy
 * Natalya Khorokhorina – Verka, postman
 * Stanislav Sadalsky – Mikhail (Mishka) Kisel
 * Stefaniya Stanyuta – Kiselikha
 * Irina Egorova – Andrei's wife
 * Alexander Bespaly – Mikhail (Mishka)
 * Yury Kukharenok – Skvortsov
 * Yulia Kosmacheva – Galyunya