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Carnival Night is a film of genre Comedy directed by Eldar Riazanov released in USA on 29 december 1956 with Igor Ilinski

Carnival Night (1956)

Carnival Night
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Released in USA 29 december 1956
Length 1h18
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Musical theatre,    Musical,    Romance
Rating73% 3.691833.691833.691833.691833.69183

The Carnival Night (Russian: Карнавальная ночь, Karnavalnaya noch) is a 1956 Soviet musical film. It is Eldar Ryazanov's first big-screen film, Lyudmila Gurchenko's first role and also one of the most famous films starring popular comedian Igor Ilyinsky.The film became the Soviet box office leader of 1956 with a total of 48.64 million tickets sold.

Synopsis

It is 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 appointed 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.

Actors

Igor Ilinski

(Серафим Иванович Огурцов)
Lioudmila Gourtchenko

(Леночка Крылова)
Vladimir Zeldin

(Николаев)
Sergueï Filippov

(Comrade Nekadilov, lecturer)
Andreï Toutychkine

(Fyodor Petrovitch Mironov, le comptable)
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