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There Was a Piano-Tuner...
Russian: Жил-был настройщик…
Written by	Rolan Bykov Vladimir Alenikov
Directed by	Vladimir Alenikov
Starring	Rolan Bykov Elena Sanayeva
Music by	Sergei Anashkin Gennady Gladkov
Country of origin	Soviet Union
Original language	Russian
Production
Cinematography	Nikolai Moskvitin
Running time	68 min.
Production company	Studio Ekran
Original release
Release	1979 (1979)

There Was a Piano-Tuner... (Russian: Жил-был настройщик…, romanized: Zhil-byl nastroyshchik...) is a 1979 Soviet feature comedy film directed by Vladimir Alenikov.

Plot

A modest and undistinguished eccentric tuner Ivan Ivanovich, who dreams of being a conductor, walks around the apartments of different people, tuning musical instruments. His way to work is always accompanied by adventures — either a neighbor with an expander climbs up to him, or an eccentric magician deceives him. Among his clients, there are also different people: this is a deaf old man who has all the notes sinking in, and a little chess player girl, whose relatives are constantly deciding who she should be in the future. One day the tuner, going to the addresses, meets the woman of his dreams — sublime and inaccessible.

Cast

• Rolan Bykov as Ivan Ivanovich, the tuner (musical numbers are performed by Pyotr Podgorodetsky)
• Elena Sanayeva as Lena
• Valery Nosik as Nikodim Savelyev
• Mikhail Kokshenov as Kuzma
• Igor Yasulovich as magician
• Georgy Martirosyan as Slavik (voiced by Nikolai Karachentsov)
• Irina Murzaeva as Lena's neighbor

External links

• There Was a Piano-Tuner... at IMDb