Afonya (Russian: Афоня) is a Soviet romantic comedy-drama film produced by Mosfilm and first released in 1975.

[1][2] Plumber – Afanasy "Afonya" Borshchov (Leonid Kuravlev) and his friend Fedulov (Borislav Brondukov) spend all day and night avoiding work and finding opportunities to drink.

Afanasy meets plasterer Kolya (Yevgeny Leonov) in a pub, gets drunk and comes home.

When Afanasy returns home, Kolya arrives to live at his place for a while, having been thrown out of his house by his wife.

At a regular work call Borshchov meets Helen (Nina Maslova) and falls in love at first sight.

Afanasy then decides to go back to his village, to his aunt Frosya (Raisa Kurkina), a simple and modest woman who had brought him up.

In the village, he meets his childhood friend Fidget (Savely Kramarov) and, in a joyous moment sends the city a telegram resigning from his job and giving up his apartment.

From his neighbor, Uncle Yegor (Nikolai Grinko) Afanasy learns that Frosya deeply missed him and even wrote letters to herself from his name, posting them in a nearby village, then receiving them and reading them to neighbors, who understood that she really wrote the letters herself, but didn't betray it so as not to hurt Frosya's feelings.

Things have gotten so bad that a local policeman has to be convinced Afanasy is the man in his passport photograph, so grim has he gotten since it was taken.