Piotr TODOROVSKY
Пётр ТОДОРОВСКИЙ
Piotr TODOROVSKI
Russia, 1995, 98mn 
Colour, fiction
What a Wonderful Game
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Какая чудная игра

 

 Quel jeu merveilleux

 Kakaya chudnaya igra

 
Directed by : Piotr TODOROVSKY (Пётр ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Piotr TODOROVSKY (Пётр ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Nikolay BURLIAEV (Николай БУРЛЯЕВ)
Andrey ILIN (Андрей ИЛЬИН)
Denis KONSTANTINOV (Денис КОНСТАНТИНОВ)
Yuri KUZNETSOV (Юрий КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Dmitry MARYANOV (Дмитрий МАРЬЯНОВ)
Gennadi MITNIK (Геннадий МИТНИК)
Gennadi NAZAROV (Геннадий НАЗАРОВ)
Mariya SHUKSHINA (Мария ШУКШИНА)
Anatoli SIDORENKO (Анатолий СИДОРЕНКО)
Larisa UDOVICHENKO (Лариса УДОВИЧЕНКО)
Yelena YAKOVLEVA (Елена ЯКОВЛЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Yuri RAISKY (Юрий РАЙСКИЙ)
Production design : Valentin KONOVALOV (Валентин КОНОВАЛОВ)
Music : Igor KANTYUKOV (Игорь КАНТЮКОВ), Piotr TODOROVSKY (Пётр ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
Sound : Yevgeniya POTOVSKAIA (Евгения ПОТОВСКАЯ)
Editing : Valeria BELOVA (Валерия БЕЛОВА)
Produced by : Mira TODOROVSKAYA (Мира ТОДОРОВСКАЯ)
Production : Mosfilm, Studio “Myrabel”, Roskomkino, Kroug avec la participation de MNVK TV-6 Moscou, Rouskaïa Kinokompania.
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
About four young people who lived in the Institute of the Arts hostel situated near Moscow. They are talented, inventive and inclinable to improvisation and practical jokes. It was the beginning of the fifties, Stalin was still alive. Once one of the «jokers» announced via hostel radio net in Levitan’s voice another price-cutting as well as passport registration cancellation and free egress abroad. The entire bunch has to pay their lives for such a joke.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Stalin in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1995