Shine, Shine, My Star
Shine, Shine, My Star 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
- Aleksandr Filippenko
- Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
- Anatoly Yeliseyev
- Elena Proklova
- Irina Murzaeva
- Konstantin Voinov
- Leonid Dyachkov
- Leonid Kuravlyov
- Lev Polyakov
- Lyubov Sokolova
- Marlen Khutsiev
- Mikaela Drozdovskaya
- Nonna Mordyukova
- Oleg Tabakov
- Oleg Yefremov
- Pavel Vinnik
- Vladimir Naumov
- Yevgeny Leonov
More details
author | Alexander Mitta Valeri Frid Yuli Dunsky |
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director | Alexander Mitta |
editor | Nadezhda Veselyovskaya |
genre | comedy-drama |
keywords | civil war id joan of arc obsess russian civil war theater director |
musicBy | Boris Tchaikovsky |
productionCompany | Mosfilm |
theme | war |