Carnival in Moscow

Карнавальная ночь

Soviet Union

1956

78 Min

Color

Russian

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Oleg Grosse, Konstantin Yefimov

SCR Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov

CAST Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov, Georgi Kulikov, Sergei Filippov

MUSIC Anatoli Lepin

Synopsis

A new chief of a “Culture House” is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert. —IMDb

Director

Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (b. 18 November 1927) is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union.
He was named a People’s Artist of the USSR in 1984, and received the USSR State Prize in 1977. The asteroid 4258 Ryazanov is named after him.
Among his most famous films are Carnival Night (1955), Hussar Ballad (1962), Beware of the Car (1966), The Irony of Fate (1975), Office Romance (1977), The Garage (1979), and A Cruel Romance (1984). Ryazanov’s main genre is tragicomedy.

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10Jun11

as with the film of the fascist era, many soviet films were nauseatically "happy" trying to cover the injustice and atrocious absurdities that were integrant part of the bloody history of communism. this is one of the most known examples.