Overview
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on Polinka, On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco and 4 more
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Setting
Set in Russian Empire
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Music
Music by Isaac Schwartz
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Cinematography
Cinematography by German Lavrov
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Mikhail ShveitserWriter
- Original title
- Карусель
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1971
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Vladimir BasovSmychkov
Natalya VorobyovaBibulova
Evgeni LeonovNyukhin
Ivan LapikovIona
Pavel PavlenkoIvan Petrovich
Valentina TitovaMariya Semyonovna
Viktor SergachyovMisha Bobov
Yelena KorolyovaPolinka
Leonid KuravlyovNikolai Timofeyevich
Yuri VolyntsevSyusin
Nikolai SergeyevConductor
Igor KashintsevWriter
Vyacheslav TikhonovHead of the house
Zhanna BolotovaYuliya Vasilyevna
Viktor KolpakovMusician
Lev PolyakovAnatol
Sofya GarrelAnatol's mother
Pavel ShpringfeldNephew of the departed
Vsevolod AbdulovStudent
Zinaida NaryshkinaVisitor
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