Garage (1979) — советский художественный фильм, трагикомедия – экранизация реальной истории произошедшей с Эльдаром Рязановым на собрании членов гаражно-строительного кооператива на «Мосфильме»

Production: Mosfilm studio, USSR, 1979.

Filmmaker: E. Ryazanov

Scriptwriter: E. Ryazanov, E. Braginsky.

Composer: A. Petrov

Starring: A. Myagkov, L. Akhedzhakova, V. Gaft, G. Burkov, S. Nemolyaeva, S. Farada, B.Brondukov, V. Innocent, I. Kostolevsky, I. Savvina, L. Markov, O.Ostroumova, N. Gurzo

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The plot of the movie:

Garage and construction cooperative "Fauna", which was contracted to build garages for employees research institute animal welfare has run into a problem.

Since a highway was to pass next to the construction site, the number of garages was reduced by five boxes.

The board of the cooperative is immediately calling a meeting of the members. Firstly, to announce this unpleasant news. And secondly, it was necessary to expel five shareholders from the cooperative.

But since discussing each nominee could drag out the process, the board had already prepared a list of five people to simply vote for.

The board realized that the happy majority would vote for the unlucky minority quickly and without any debate. After all, if the meeting dragged on, the garage could lose some of them.

There was one more circumstance, because of which the board was in a hurry to close this issue more quickly. This circumstance was the so-called "blatniks". They were not employees of the institute and formally had no right to become shareholders of the cooperative.

However, thanks to their connections and opportunities, they were able to solve this issue. When there were enough garages for everyone, no one would have paid any attention to them, but now everything could come out.

But the board thought in vain that the deprived garage shareholders would accept the sad verdict and silently mop up. Excluded shareholders were not going to accept injustice and blocked the work of the meeting. The heated debates continued until the morning. As they say the morning is wiser, it brought the tired shareholders a fair resolution of the garage issue ...