Balalaika
Where there's wine, women, and song!
Rating: 5.3 out of 10TMDB(6 votes)
Overview
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the Oscar for Best Sound (1940)
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Setting
Set in Paris
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Music
Music by Herbert Stothart
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Karl Freund and Joseph Ruttenberg
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jacques DevalScreenplay
- Leon GordonScreenplay
- Charles BennettScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 15, 1939
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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In the United States
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Cast
Nelson EddyPrince Peter Karagin, aka Peter Teranda
Ilona MasseyLydia Marakova
Charles RugglesNicki Popoff
Frank MorganIvan Danchenoff
Lionel AtwillProfessor Marakov
C. Aubrey SmithGeneral Karagin
Joyce ComptonMasha
Dalies FrantzDimitri Marakov
Phillip TerryLieutenant Smirnoff
Walter Woolf KingMichael Sibirsky
Frederick WorlockRamensky
Abner BibermanLeo Proplinski- Arthur W. CernitzSergei Pavloff
Roland VarnoLieutenant Nikitin
George TobiasSlaski
Paul SuttonAnton
Willy CastelloCapt. Testoff- Paul IrvingPrince Morodin
Mildred ShayJeanette Sibirsky
Alma KrugerMrs. Danchenoff
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