Mark ZAKHAROV
Марк ЗАХАРОВ
Marc ZAKHAROV
USSR, 1984, 90mn 
Colour, fiction
A Formula of Love
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Формула любви

 

 La Formule de l'amour

 Formula lyubvi

 
Directed by : Mark ZAKHAROV (Марк ЗАХАРОВ)
Writing credits : Grigori GORIN (Григорий ГОРИН), Aleksey TOLSTOY (Алексей ТОЛСТОЙ)
 
Cast
Nodar MGALOBLISHVILI (Нодар МГАЛОБЛИШВИЛИ) ...Caliostro
Aleksandr ABDULOV (Александр АБДУЛОВ) ...Jacob
Semyon FARADA (Семён ФАРАДА)
Yelena VALIUSHKINA (Елена ВАЛЮШКИНА)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir NAKHABTSEV (Владимир НАХАБЦЕВ), Yuri RAISKY (Юрий РАЙСКИЙ)
Production design : Natalia MONEVA (Наталья МОНЕВА)
Music : Gennadi GLADKOV (Геннадий ГЛАДКОВ)
Production : Mosfilm
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
Musical based on the novel by A. Tolstoy «Earl Kaliostro». The adventurer and magician Kaliostro came to Russia. He dreams of creating the formula of love and he entrains young Maria. The young landlord Alexey asks Kaliostro to breathe life into a statue in the park as he considers it the real beauty. Alexey and Maria fell in love with each other. The magician’s cantrip can do nothing against real love.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2021
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2019

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