The geeky, sleazy, brownnosing secretary is played by Yevgeny Mironov. If I hadn't known ahead of time that he's the ruthless killer, I never would have guessed. As it was, I had another chance to admire his acting genius. Remembering his prior movie roles, you can only marvel at his range: he was the smitten goof in
Love, the kinky-haired whiz kid in
Limita, the shipshape junior officer in
Burnt by the Sun. And now he's a psycho!
Sergei Vovin
Courtesy of e-mironov.narod.ru
The team of Ostroumova and Mironov (the local Iron Lady of a schoolmistress and her Latin-quoting slimebag of a secretary) outacts all the other players put together.
Aleksei Yevdokimov
Chas
[Translated by Vlada Chernomordik for the Yevgeny Mironov Official Website]