Shine, Shine, My Star

Shine, Shine, My Star

This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.

Cast for Shine, Shine, My Star...

Oleg Tabakov
Iskremas / Cuckoo
Elena Proklova
Krysya / Jeanne d'Arc
Evgeni Leonov
Cinematographer
Leonid Kuravlyov
Red comissar
Leonid Dyachkov
Ohrim, green agent
Marlen Khutsiyev
Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)
Nonna Mordyukova
White actress
Aleksandr Filippenko
Second 'cuckoo' player
Pavel Vinnik
husband in silent film
Lyubov Sokolova
Painter's wife
Vladimir Naumov
staff captain
Konstantin Voynov
white officer
Mikaela Drozdovskaya
staff captain's wife
Lev Polyakov
lover in silent film
Irina Murzayeva
female pianist
Rogvold Sukhoverko
bandit (uncredited)
Evgeny Mitta
spectator (uncredited)