‘Window to Paris’

Yuri Mamin’s knockabout 1995 comedy stars Serguei Dontsov (pictured) as Nikolai, a music and aesthetics teacher in a St. Petersburg business high school, where he’s regarded as obsolete. At last he lands a garret room in an apartment that is home to the Gorokhovs, hearty archetypal Russian survivors. One of them and some other boozy pals discover that there’s a window behind the armoire in Nikolai’s room. But the roof it goes onto is not in St. Petersburg but in Paris! (TMC Friday at 5:35 p.m.)