Shine, Shine, My Star

Release date: 06/06/1969

Genres:

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Rating:

5.7

This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.

Actors

Oleg Tabakov

Iskremas / Cuckoo

Elena Proklova

Krysya / Jeanne d'Arc

Oleg Efremov

Painter

Evgeni Leonov

Cinematographer

Leonid Kuravlyov

Red comissar

Leonid Dyachkov

Ohrim, green agent

Marlen Khutsiyev

Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)

Nonna Mordyukova

White actress

Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

shooter

Aleksandr Filippenko

Second 'cuckoo' player

Pavel Vinnik

husband in silent film

Lyubov Sokolova

Painter's wife

Vladimir Naumov

staff captain

Konstantin Voynov

white officer

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

staff captain's wife

Lev Polyakov

lover in silent film

Irina Murzayeva

female pianist

Nikolai Nikolayev-Nikolsky

Rogvold Sukhoverko

bandit (uncredited)

Aleksandr Milyutin

guard

Evgeny Mitta

spectator (uncredited)

Shine, Shine, My Star

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