Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)
Released | 1969-06-06 | Drama-Comedy-Romance | 94m | 5.7/10
Yuri Sokol (Director of Photography) | Valeri Frid (Writer) | Yuli Dunsky (Writer) | Aleksandr Mitta (Writer) | Boris Blank (Production Design) | Alina Budnikova (Costume Design) | Boris Chaikovsky (Music) | Nadezhda Veselovskaya (Editor) |
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.
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) | Anatoly Yeliseyev (Vakhromeev) | Lev Polyakov (lover in silent film) | Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya (tall dancer) | Irina Murzayeva (female pianist) | Nikolai Nikolayev-Nikolsky () | Rogvold Sukhoverko (bandit (uncredited)) | Aleksandr Milyutin (guard) | Evgeny Mitta (spectator (uncredited)) |