Overview
A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Moscow
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Music
Music by Maksim Dunayevsky
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Peter Kataev
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Anna RodionovaWriter
- Original title
- Карнавал
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 8, 1981
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Irina MuravyovaNina Solomatina
Yuriy YakovlevMikhail Solomatin
Klara LuchkoJosephine Viktorovna
Aleksandr AbdulovNikita
Vera VasilevaNikita's mother
Aleksandr MikhaylovRemizov
Lidiya SmirnovaChairman of the Commission
Valentina Titovalandlady
Yelena Tonuntsguest at the Nina's party
Inga Budkevich
Roman MonastyrskyDima
Alevtina Rumyantsevamother of Nina
Ekaterina ZhemchuzhnayaKarma
Zinaida VorkulZinaida
Georgy ZhemchuzhnyKarma's husband
Elena Maksimovavisitor of the pawnshop
Olga Blok-Mirimskayafemme fatale from the movie in the cinema
Vyacheslav BaranovZhenya
Vadim AndreyevVadim Arturovich
Vladimir Balashovmember of the Admission Committee
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