Taxi Blues
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Taxi Blues is a 1990 Soviet drama film
directed by Pavel Lungin
. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival
where Lungin won the award for Best Director
.
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Pavel Lungin
Pavel Lungin
Pavel Semyonovich Lungin is a Russian film director. He is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine .Born July 12, 1949 in Moscow, Lungin is the son of a scriptwriter and philologist. He later attended Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1971...
. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival
1990 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Bernardo Bertolucci *Alexei Guerman *Anjelica Huston *Bertrand Blier *Christopher Hampton*Fanny Ardant *Françoise Giroud *Hayao Shibata *Mira Nair *Sven Nykvist...
where Lungin won the award for Best Director
Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....
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Plot
Shlykov, a hard-working taxi driver and Lyosha, a saxophonist develop a bizarre love-hate relationship, and despite their prejudices, realize they aren't so different after all.Cast
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- Lyosha - Pyotr Zaychenko - Shlykov
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- Yevgeni Gerchakov - Bald Musician in the Taxi
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- Writer Typing in the Train - Igor Zolotovitsky - Petyunchik
- Valeri Khlevinsky - Fat Kolya
- Yelena Stepanova - Smart Young Girl
- Vladimir Sterzhakov - Musician in the Taxi
- Konstantin Afonsky - Long-Haired Mechanic
- Aleksandr Buyanov - Passenger with Newspaper
- Lidiya Yezhevskaya - 'Mousy' Valya