
Shine, Shine, My Star
1 hour 34 minutes1969-06-06
5.7
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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 Volodya, 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.
Cast

Oleg Tabakov
Iskremas / Cuckoo

Elena Proklova
Krysya / Jeanne d'Arc

Oleg Efremov
Painter

Evgeni Leonov
Cinematographer

Leonid Kuravlyov
Red comissar

Leonid Dyachkov
Ohrim, green agent

Marlen Khutsiyev
Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)

Nonna Mordyukova
White actress

Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
shooter

Aleksandr Filippenko
Second 'cuckoo' player

Pavel Vinnik
husband in silent film

Lyubov Sokolova
Painter's wife

Vladimir Naumov
staff captain

Konstantin Voynov
white officer

Mikaela Drozdovskaya
staff captain's wife

Anatoly Yeliseyev
Vakhromeev

Lev Polyakov
lover in silent film

Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya
tall dancer

Irina Murzayeva
female pianist

Nikolai Nikolayev-Nikolsky

Rogvold Sukhoverko
bandit (uncredited)

Aleksandr Milyutin
guard
