The read
It runs a compact 1h 16m.
Synopsis
Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.
Ratings
TMDB4.5/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Olga PreobrazhenskayaDirector
- Yuriy BolotovScreenplay
- Olga PreobrazhenskayaScreenplay
Cast
- Yuriy ZiminFedya
- Nikolai PanovGeorges, clown
- Yevgeniya KhovanskayaOwner of the night shelter
- Naum RogozhinMazamet, organ-grinder
- Antonin PankryshevLuka
- Leonid YurenyovGvozd, vagabond
- Yelena TyapkinaNastasya, washerwoman
- Boris SnigiryovAgafon, coachman
- Gulya KorolyovaGirl from the Trubny market (uncredited)
- Nikolay TrofimovStreet boy (uncredited)