Shine, Shine, My Star

In 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution, the peoples had to decide between conforming to Bolshevism or national self-determination. 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.

• Valeri FridWriter
• Aleksandr MittaDirector
• Yuli DunskyWriter
• Aleksandr MittaWriter
• Boris ChaikovskyOriginal Music Composer

• Oleg TabakovIskremas / Cuckoo
• Elena ProklovaKrysya / Jeanne d'Arc
• Oleg EfremovPainter
• Evgeni LeonovCinematographer
• Leonid KuravlyovRed comissar
• Leonid DyachkovOhrim, green agent
• Marlen KhutsiyevThird 'cuckoo' player (prince)
• Nonna MordyukovaWhite actress
• Aleksandr Porokhovshchikovshooter
• Aleksandr FilippenkoSecond 'cuckoo' player
• Pavel Vinnikhusband in silent film
• Lyubov SokolovaPainter's wife