Carnival Night (1956)
1h 18m
Running Time
December 29, 1956Release Date
Carnival Night (1956)
1h 18m
Running Time
December 29, 1956Release Date
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Plot.
It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.
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Cast & Crew.

Igor Ilyinsky
Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov

Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lena Krylova

Yuri Belov
Grisha Koltsov

Andrei Tutyshkin
Fyodor Petrovich Mironov

Olga Vlasova
Adelaida Kuzminichna Romashkina

Tamara Nosova
Tosya Burigina

Georgiy Kulikov
Seryozha Usikov

Gennadi Yudin
jazz band Conductor

Vladimir Zeldin
Nikolayev

Boris Petker
Nikolay Sidorov

Sergei Filippov
comrade Nekadilov

Valentina Shmeleva
Vera

Olga Shmeleva
Nadya

Evgeniya Shmeleva
Lyuba

Boris Gusakov
чечёточник-мексиканец

Yuriy Gusakov
чечёточник-мексиканец

Tamara Sokolova
dancer

Pyotr Pomazkov
dancer

Valentin Bryleev
Kostya

Aleksey Polevoy
Eduard Nikiforov

Semyon Khmelnitskiy
Vasyli Telegin

Elizaveta Pokrovskaya
Yelizaveta Telegina

Antonina Smetankina
Dusya

Vladimir Pitsek
floor polisher

Feliks Yavorsky
head of the choir circle / 'Vasily Benediktovich Sviristinsky-Shmygaylo' / conductor of the 'pensioners' orchestra

Anatoliy Kirillov
amateur participant

Vladimir Polyakov
Writer

Eldar Ryazanov
Director

Boris Laskin
Writer

Aleksandra Kamagorova
Editor

Oleg Grosse
Production Design

Konstantin Yefimov
Production Design

Arkadi Koltsaty
Director of Photography

Valentin Maslov
Production Manager

Anatoliy Lepin
Original Music Composer

Galina Shakhovskaya
Choreographer

Vadim Korostylyov
Lyricist

A. Obrant
Choreographer

Adolf Rosner
Conductor

N. Orlov
Script Editor
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Details.
Release DateDecember 29, 1956
Original NameКарнавальная Ночь
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
musical
Wiki.
Carnival Night (Russian: Карнавальная ночь, romanized: Karnavalnaya noch) is a 1956 Soviet musical film. It is Eldar Ryazanov's first big-screen film, and Lyudmila Gurchenko's first role. It is also one of the most famous films starring popular comedian Igor Ilyinsky.
Produced during the Khrushchev Thaw, the film became the Soviet box office leader of 1956 with a total of 48.64 million tickets sold. Today it remains a highly popular New Year's Eve classic in Russia and the post-Soviet space.
Карнавальная ночь (Коллекция).
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