Carnival Night
Encyclopedia
The Carnival Night 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.
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.
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
musical film
Musical film
The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
. It is Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union....
's first big-screen film, Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer.-Biography:Lyudmila was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR in 1935 to Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenko and Yelena Aleksandrovna Simonova-Gurchenko . Before the World War II they lived in a single room apartment on...
's first role and also one of the most famous films starring popular comedian Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...
.The film became the Soviet box office leader of 1956 with a total of 48.64 million tickets sold.
Plot
It is the New Year's EveNew Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
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
Jazz band
A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section, in the early days often trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with rhythm section of piano, banjo, bass or tuba, and drums.-Eras:SwingDuring the swing era in the mid-twentieth...
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.
Cast
- Igor IlyinskyIgor IlyinskyIgor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian actor and notable silent film comedian.-Early years:Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow.At the age of 16 he entered the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre Studio and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Kommisarzhevskaya...
as Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov - Lyudmila GurchenkoLyudmila GurchenkoLyudmila Markovna Gurchenko was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer.-Biography:Lyudmila was born in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR in 1935 to Mark Gavrilovich Gurchenko and Yelena Aleksandrovna Simonova-Gurchenko . Before the World War II they lived in a single room apartment on...
as Lena Krylova - Yuri Belov as Grisha Koltsov
- Andrei Tutyshkin as Fyodor Petrovich Mironov, bookkeeper
- Olga Vlasova as Adelaida Kuzminichna Ramashkina
- Tamara Nosova as Tosya Burigina
- Georgi Kulikov as Seryozha Usikov
- Gennadi Yudin as Jazz band Conductor
- Vladimir ZeldinVladimir ZeldinVladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin is a Russian theatre and cinema actor.Zeldin was born in the town of Kozlov . In 1935 he graduated from the theatre college at the Mossovet Theatre and became its actor. For over 60 years he has been working in the Russian Army Theatre, Moscow.Zeldin became an...
as Clown - B. Nemker as Clown
- Sergei Filippov as Comrade Nekadilov, lecturer
- Shmelev Sisters as Singing Waitresses
- V. Gusakov as Dancer
- Y.Gusakov as Dancer
- Tamara Kruchova as acrobat girl
Crew
- Director: Eldar RyazanovEldar RyazanovEldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union....
- Writers: Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov
- Cinematography: Arkady Koltsaty
- Composer: Anatols Liepiņš (Anatoly LepinAnatoly LepinAnatoly Yakovlevich Lepin was a Soviet composer.He lived in Riga from 1945 to 1950, and during that period composed the State Anthem of the Latvian SSR....
) - Music orchestration: Eddie RosnerEddie RosnerAdolph Ignatievich Rosner, also known as Eddie Rosner was a Polish and Soviet Jazz musician called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong" in different sources. This is in part because of his rendition of the St. Louis blues...
, also jazz band leader (uncredited)
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