Synopsis
In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Metacritic67/100
117 audience votes
Key crew
- Valery TodorovskyWriter
- Yuri KorotkovWriter
- Valery TodorovskyDirector
- Evgeniy MargulisWriter
Cast
- Anton ShaginMels
- Oksana AkinshinaPolza
- Maksim MatveevFred
- Igor VoynarovskiyBob
- Ekaterina VilkovaBetsi
- Konstantin BalakirevDryn
- Oleg YankovskiyFred's father
- Lyudmila SolovyovaFred’s mother
- Aleksandr StefantsovNolik
- Georgiy SivokhinKim
- Olga SmirnovaSherri
- Yanina MelekhovaLiza
Stills
Themes
politicsmusical