Shine, Shine, My Star

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Oleg TabakovIskremas

Elena ProklovaKrysya / Jeanne d'Arc

Oleg EfremovPainter

Evgeni LeonovCinematographer

Leonid KuravlyovRed comissar

Leonid DyachkovOhrim, green agent

Marlen KhutsiyevThird 'cuckoo' player (prince)

Nonna Mordyukovamadame

Aleksandr Porokhovshchikovshooter

Aleksandr FilippenkoSecond 'cuckoo' player

Pavel Vinnikhusband in silent film

Lyubov SokolovaPainter's wife