Balalaika
Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.
Plot
In 1914 Tsarist Russia, Prince Peter Karagin (Nelson Eddy) is a captain of the Cossack Guards, riding home from manoeuvres to an evening of wine, women and song at St. Petersburg's Cafe Balalaika. The Balalaika's new star, Lydia Pavlovna Marakova (Ilona Massey), is blackmailed into attending the officers' party and is expected to choose a "favoured one." She intrigues Karagin when she makes good her escape instead.
More details
| author | Charles Bennett Jacques Deval |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Reinhold Schünzel |
| editor | George Boemler |
| genre | romance |
| keywords | arrest charlie ruggles cossack court dedicate even kill new year rid russian orthodox russian revolution true love white movement white russian white russians |
| musicBy | Herbert Stothart |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Sound |
| producer | Lawrence Weingarten |
| publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| theme | romantic musical |