Cinematography:
Сергей НекрасовComposer:
Yuri MaminCast:
Agnès Soral, Sergey Dontsov, Viktor Mikhaylov, Yelena Drapeko, Malka Ribowska, Yuri Mamin, Arkadiy Tigay, Нина Усатова, Andrey Urgant, Jean Rupert (more)Plots(1)
In this comedy-fantasy a group of Russian eccentrics discover that they can go to Paris from their home in St. Petersburg by leaping through an apartment window. The first eccentric is Nikolay, an oddball teacher. Next is his rotund, crude neighbor Gorokhov and his family. One night Nikolay and Gorokhov climb through a hidden window to get on the roof. They get rip-roarin' drunk the destroy the studio apartment of Nicole, an artist. It is only in the morning that they realize that they were actually in Paris. Soon Gorokhov's whole family is going to Paris where they loot and bring back Western goods into Russia. It is Nicole's apartment they go to and she is going crazy by their repeated visits. She turns the tables and climbs through the window to their home. She is appalled by modern St. Petersburg with its violence, poverty, and political upheaval. She gets into trouble with the local police but is saved by Nikolay who convinces them that she is Edith Piaf on tour. Later Nikolay decides to take his students to Paris. Unfortunately, they don't want to leave and the window is going to close for the next 20 years. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Agnès Soral
Best movies:
So Long, Stooge (1983)
I Love You (1986)
The Ogre (1996)
Sergey Dontsov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Papa (2004)
Russian Ark (2002)
Taras Bulba (2009)
Viktor Mikhaylov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya (1979) (series)
The Castle (1994)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Yelena Drapeko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
Malka Ribowska
Poland
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
Sundays and Cybele (1962)
Yuri Mamin
Soviet Union
Arkadiy Tigay
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Peculiarities of the National Politics (2003)
Kole Sharlotty (1984) (TV movie)
Dauriya (1971)
Нина Усатова
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
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Andrey Urgant
Soviet Union
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Jean Rupert
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Amélie (2001)
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Madly (1969)
Sibylle Blanc
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Nightcap (2000)
Guy Séligmann
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Le Bon Plaisir (1984)
Anatoliy Rudakov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
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Валентин Букин
Soviet Union
Best movies:
D'Artanyan i tri mushketyora (1978) (TV movie)
The Adventures of Buratino (1975) (TV movie)
Kin-Dza-Dza! (1986)
Aleksandr Martynov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Twilight (2005)
Yuriy Oskin
Best movies:
Heart of a Dog (1988) (TV movie)
Svoi (2004)
Eugene, Little Eugene and Katyusha (1967)
Kira Kreylis-Petrova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Kuchňa v Pariže (2014)
Twilight (2005)
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Anatoliy Slivnikov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
Come and See (1985)
Heart of a Dog (1988) (TV movie)
Oleg Yudin
Best movies:
The Stoker (2010)