Shine, Shine, My Star (film)

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Shine, Shine, My Star

Directed by	Alexander Mitta
Written by	Yuli Dunsky Alexander Mitta Valeri Frid
Starring	Oleg Tabakov Oleg Yefremov Elena Proklova Yevgeny Leonov Leonid Kuravlyov
Cinematography	Yuri Sokol
Edited by	Nadezhda Veselyovskaya
Music by	Boris Chaikovsky
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1970 (1970)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Shine, Shine, My Star (Russian: Гори, гори, моя звезда, romanized: Gori, gori moya zvezda) is a 1970 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Mitta.

Plot

Events in the film take place during the Russian Civil War. In a small provincial town at first come to power the red, then the white and then the green. The protagonist is the self-taught theater director Vladimir Iskremas (a pseudonym, which is an abbreviation of "Iskusstvo — revoljucionnym massam" – "Art - for the revolutionary masses") stages the tragedy of Joan of Arc. He is obsessed with the ideas of theater and its transformation under the new revolutionary art.

Cast

Oleg Tabakov as Vladimir Iskremas
Elena Proklova as Christina Kotlyarenko (The Rat)
Yevgeny Leonov as Pashka, the host of the illusion
Oleg Yefremov as Fyodor, artist-autodidact
Vladimir Naumov as Staff Captain
Leonid Dyachkov as Ohrim
Leonid Kuravlyov as Commissioner Serdyuk
Marlen Khutsiev as Prince
Konstantin Voinov as white officer
Boris Boldyrevsky
Alexander Milyutin as guard
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov as white officer
Lyubov Sokolova as wife of Fyodor
Aleksandr Filippenko as white officer
Anatoly Eliseev as Vakhromeev, murderer of Fyodor
Tatyana Nepomnyashchaya as Margarita Vlasevna, dancer
Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya as Anyuta, a tall dancer
Irina Murzaeva as Tapera
Pavel Vinnik as husband in the silent cinema
Mikaela Drozdovskaya as wife of the staff captain
Nonna Mordyukova as Madame
Rogvold Sukhoverko as assistant of Ohrim (not in the credits)

Production

At first Rolan Bykov was supposed to play Iskremas. But after he starred in the prohibited 1967 film Commissar, the actor was listed as "disgraced" and Oleg Tabakov was hired for the role instead.^[1] The working title of the picture, Comedy about Iskremas, was not accepted by the commission at acceptance of the picture. Mitta came up with the new name Shine, Shine, My Star - coinciding with the famous romance.^[2] In the episodic roles of white officers in the film three notable Soviet film directors were cast: Vladimir Naumov, Marlen Khutsiev and Konstantin Voinov.^[3]

References

^ "Гори, гори, моя звезда. Х/ф". Russia-K.
^ "Александр Митта: Нужно понимать, как управлять вниманием зрителя" [Alexander Mitta: It is important to understand how to control the viewers attention]. 27 January 2007.
^ Интервью с Г. В. Баснером

External links

Shine, Shine, My Star at IMDb
‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› Shine, Shine, My Star at AllMovie

v t e Films by Alexander Mitta
My Friend, Kolka! (1961) No Fear, No Blame (1962) They're Calling, Open the Door (1965) Shine, Shine, My Star (1970) Point, Point, Comma... (1972) Moscow, My Love (1974) How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976) Air Crew (1979) The Story of Voyages (1982) A Step (1988) Lost in Siberia (1991) Chagall — Malevich (2014)

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