Shine, Shine, My Star

Original title: Gori, gori, moya zvezda

1970
PG-13
1h 34m

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The story of a young actor during the Civil War years who drives around the countryside giving free performances in order to bring art to the masses.The story of a young actor during the Civil War years who drives around the countryside giving free performances in order to bring art to the masses.The story of a young actor during the Civil War years who drives around the countryside giving free performances in order to bring art to the masses.

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Oleg Tabakov

Vladimir Iskremas

Oleg Efremov

khudozhnik Fyodor

Evgeniy Leonov

Pashka

Elena Proklova

Krysya

Leonid Dyachkov

Okhrim

Leonid Kuravlyov

komissar Serdyuk

Vladimir Naumov

Stabs kapitan

Marlen Khutsiev

Knyaz
(as M. Khutsiyev)

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

Zhena stabs-kapitana
(as M. Drozdovskaya)

Anatoliy Eliseev

Vakhromeyev
(as A. Yeliseyev)

Aleksandr Filippenko

Belyy ofitser
(as A. Filippenko)

Lyudmila Khelmitskaya

Anyuta
(as L. Khmelnitskaya)

Nonna Mordyukova

Madam
(as N. Mordyukova)

Irina Murzayeva

Tapersha
(as I. Murzayeva)

Tatyana Nepomnyashchaya

Margarita Vlasyevna
(as T. Nepomnyashchaya)

Lev Polyakov

Lyubovnik v nemom kino
(as L. Polyakov)

Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov

Belyy ofitser
(as A. Porokhovshchikov)

Lyubov Sokolova

zhena Fyodi
(as L. Sokolova)

Director
- Aleksandr Mitta
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9/10

The self-ironic russian cinema is worth a look, take this one.

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 Wolodja, 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.

Like in most Russian films, not only of that time, you have to read between the lines, to get the whole meaning. Although its basic atmosphere is quite tempered, there is a much darker, more realistic inhere. The self-ironic Russian cinema is worth a look, take this one.