Karnavalnaya noch / Carnival in Moscow (1956)
Carnival in Moscow / Karnavalnaya noch (1956)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 7000 kbps | 8.1Gb
Audio: #1 Russian AC3 6.1 @ 448 Kbps, #2 Russian AC3 1.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English (custom)
01:18:00 | Soviet Union | Comedy, Musical, Romance
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 7000 kbps | 8.1Gb
Audio: #1 Russian AC3 6.1 @ 448 Kbps, #2 Russian AC3 1.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English (custom)
01:18:00 | Soviet Union | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov
Cast: Igor Ilyinsky, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Yuri Belov, Georgi Kulikov, Sergei Filippov, Olga Vlasova, Andrei Tutyshkin, Tamara Nosova, Gennadi Yudin, Vladimir Zeldin, Boris Petker, Y. Gusakov, Valentin Bryleyev, Boris Gusakov, I. Khmelnitsky, Aleksandr Kirillov, Tamara Kruchova, Igor Lovitak, Vladimir Pitsek, Ye. Pokrovskaya, Aleksey Polevoy, Pyetr Pomazkov, The Shmelyov Sisters, A. Smetankina, T. Sokolova, Feliks Yavorsky, Vladimir Gusev
Karnavalnaya noch / Carnival in Moscow (1956)
Karnavalnaya noch / Carnival in Moscow (1956)
It's New Year's Eve and a group of young dancers, singers, musicians, magicians and clowns, led by the lovely Lyudmila Gurchenko, plan to present a "carnival night" (Kamavalnaya noch) of laughter, delight and carefree celebration. But the bureaucratic boss of the Culture Ministry, played by the renowned stage actor Igor Ilyinsky, wants to present an evening of serious education ("He'll deliver the lecture… rather briefly… 40 minutes should be enough."). Comedy ensues as the young performers outsmart the minister through a series of screwball gags, trapping him in an elevator, replacing the written speech in his suit pocket with an exploding umbrella, getting a speaker drunk before his lecture, disguising a jazz band as old men playing the "classics". Meanwhile, Lyudmila slowly recognizes the talent and charm of her pining suitor and love triumphs in the end.
Extras
- Interview with Eldar Ryazanov (2004, 73 min, Russian, no subs)
- Interview with Lyudmila Gurchenko (2003, 22 min, Russian, no subs)
- Restoration comparison
Karnavalnaya noch / Carnival in Moscow (1956)
IMDb
Karnavalnaya Noch was the first comedy made by the Russian director Eldar Ryazanov. Filled with music, dances and singing it featured Ludmila Gurchenko in her first role and the renowned stage and film actor Igor Ilyinsky as Ogurtsov, an old-fashioned bureaucrat-stand-in director of the Culture Palace where the team of young people is trying to put together a musical programme to celebrate the New Year's Eve. Sergei Fillipov is particularly funny as a tipsy lecturer who is invited by Ogurtsov to read a lecture about life on Mars on the New Years Eve, and Yuri Belov is good as a shy electrician who is in love with Lena Krylova(Gurchenko) The film is a light "feeling good" viewing, it is ageless and can be watched over and over again.
~ harbin-3
Karnavalnaya noch / Carnival in Moscow (1956)
