Based on story by Ivan Shmelev. The movie action starts very close before February democratic revolution in Russia in 1917. Fate is cruel to waiter of capital city restaurant Skorohodov: his son dies on front, his wife perishes from grief, his daughter is excluded from grammar school because of lack of money to pay tuition. Skorohodov decides to rent one of rooms in his poor a...$剧情有趣,有看点,音乐轻快,整体4星电影$喔原来男主角就是之后"爱德华大夫"里的老心理医生$出色的情节剧!