The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin (1989)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 6, 1989Release Date
The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin (1989)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 6, 1989Release Date
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Plot.
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
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Cast & Crew.
Aleksey Petrenko
Stalin
Aleksandr Feklistov
Sandro Chegemba
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Kalinin
Sergey Nikonenko
Voroshilov
Valentin Gaft
Beriya
Mikhail Kononov
KGB officer
Yuriy Kara
Director
Fazil Iskander
Writer
Larisa Belogurova
Nina, Beria's wife
Edison Denisov
Composer
Aleksei Safonov
Nestor Lakoba
Vadim Semyonovykh
Cinematographer
Alla Myakotina
Editor
Anatoly Kochurov
Production Design
Berta Kuratova
Costume Design
Boris Kuzovkin
Set Decoration
Anatoly Petrov
Evgeniy Tetervov
Viktor Makhmutov
Valeriy Denisov
Vladimir Nekrasov
Vladimir Tyurin
Fedor Smirnov
Yuri Morozov
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 6, 1989
Original NameПиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Genres
Wiki.
The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin or (Russian: Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным, romanized: Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym) is a 1989 film adaptation of Fazil Iskander's eponymous novella directed by Yuri Kara. In the 1990s the film was screened in the United States, including at the United States Congress. The title is a reference to Belshazzar's feast, a chapter of the Book of Daniel.