Carnival (1981 film)

Carnival (Russian: Карнавал, romanized: Karnaval) is a 1981 Soviet romantic comedy directed by Tatyana Lioznova.[1][2]

Carnival
Directed byTatyana Lioznova
Written byAnna Rodionova
Starring
Music byMaksim Dunayevsky
CinematographyPyotr Kataev
Production
company
Release date
  • 1981 (1981)
Running time
151 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

In a small southern city lives a young woman, Nina Solomatina, with her mother. Her father left her as a child and moved to Moscow. Dreaming study acting, Nina comes to Moscow, but fails the entrance examinations to the theatrical school. Deciding to try to enter next year, Nina temporarily moves in with her father and his family. Striving to provide for herself, she goes to work, but because of various incidents, she is not able to stay anywhere for a long time. In her personal life, Nina also suffers a fiasco — Muscovite student Nikita very quickly breaks up with her for a new girl. As a result, Nina begins to understand that the big city is not the eternal carnival she imagined it to be, and instead of conquering the world, the main heroine returns to her home — to care of her ill mother.

The film ends on an ambiguous note – Nina Solomatina appears as a famous singer performing at the full hall, it is not clear if all this is real, or just her imagination.

Cast
  • Irina Muravyova as Nina Solomatina (song by Zhanna Rozhdestvenskaya)
  • Yury Yakovlev as Mikhail Solomatin, father of Nina
  • Klara Luchko as Josephine Viktorovna, the wife of Mikhail Solomatin
  • Aleksandr Abdulov as Nikita
  • Vera Vasilyeva as Nikita's mother
  • Alevtina Rumyantseva as mother of Nina
  • Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya as Karma
  • Alexander Mikhailov as Remizov
  • Lidiya Smirnova as Chairman of the Commission
  • Valentina Titova as landlady
  • Zinaida Vorkul as Zinaida, Solomatin's mother
  • Andrey Gusev as barking entrant with kefir
  • Elena Maksimova as visitor of the pawnshop
  • Olga Blok-Mirimskaya as femme fatale from the movie in the cinema
  • Vyacheslav Baranov as Zhenya
  • Vadim Andreev as Vadim Arturovich
  • Vladimir Balashov as member of the Admission Committee
  • Vladimir Smirnov as neighbor who brought a table
  • Roman Monastyrsky as Dima, Nina's paternal half-brother
  • Margarita Zharova as conductor
  • Claudia Kozlenkova as woman in the subway
  • Anatoly Pidgorodetsky as entrant
  • Tamara Yarenko as neighbor
  • Yakov Belenky as neighbor

Reception

Carnival was the ninth most popular film at the box-office in the Soviet Union in 1982; it was seen by 30,4 million viewers.[3]

In the same year, for her leading performance, Irina Muravyova was recognized as the best actress according to the results of a survey of readers of the magazine Soviet Screen.[4]

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References
  1. Elena Yakovleva. "Фильм с совестью. Как Татьяна Лиознова снимала "Карнавал"". Argumenty i Fakty.
  2. ""Позвони мне, позвони" из фильма "Карнавал" хотела спеть Пугачева". Komsomolskaya Pravda.
  3. "Карнавал". VokrugTV.
  4. "Ровно тридцать лет назад режиссер Татьяна Лиознова приступила к съемкам музыкальной комедии "Карнавал"". WomanHit.
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