Streak of Luck

The fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series comprising three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit), directed by filmmaker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov, tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow. Next comes a short film by Aleksandr Majorov called 'Zolotye rybki' (Goldfishes), which is based on a story of a magical goldfish brought from a provincial pet store by the late Russian historian and science-fiction and fantasy writer Kir Bulychyov. The final segment and the title of the film, 'Polosa vezeniya' (Streak of Luck), tells the story of a member of staff at a research institute who is offered the job of department head but has second thoughts when he discovers the previous boss was unfairly dismissed.

• Yevgeni GerasimovDirector
• Aleksandr MayorovDirector
• Semyon MorozovDirector

• Oleg StefanCast
• Natalya VavilovaCast
• Svetlana NemolyaevaCast
• Galina PolskikhCast
• Vyacheslav NevinnyyCast
• Tatyana BozhokCast
• Sergei BalabanovCast
• Mikhail KononovCast
• Vitali SolominCast
• Nina Ter-OsipyanCast
• Yevgeni GerasimovCast
• Nikolai ParfyonovCast