Carnival Night

1956 1h 18m RU

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7.4

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★7.0TMDB · 83★7.4IMDB · 3,604

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Synopsis

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It is the 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 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.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Igor Ilyinsky
Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lena Krylova
Yuri Belov
Grisha Koltsov
Georgiy Kulikov
Usikov
Sergei Filippov
comrade Nekadilov
Olga Vlasova
Romashkina
Andrei Tutyshkin
accountant
Tamara Nosova
Tosya

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Eldar Ryazanov
Writers: Boris Laskin, Vladimir Polyakov
Languages: Russian
Countries: Soviet Union

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RUNTIME

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Tight 78-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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70 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Carnival Night Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Eldar Ryazanov, shot by Arkadi Koltsaty. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Anatoliy Lepin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Aleksandra Kamagorova shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Igor Ilyinsky and Lyudmila Gurchenko and Yuri Belov carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0049397 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Eldar Ryazanov directs. Arkadi Koltsaty behind the camera. Anatoliy Lepin scores. Aleksandra Kamagorova cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Soviet Union. Dialogue in Russian.

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Things worth knowing

1Tight 78-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
270 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "Carnival Night Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Eldar Ryazanov, shot by Arkadi Koltsaty. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Anatoliy Lepin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Aleksandra Kamagorova shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Igor Ilyinsky and Lyudmila Gurchenko and Yuri Belov carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt0049397 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 83 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.