Aleksandr FAINTSIMMER
Александр ФАЙНЦИММЕР
Aleksandr FAINTSIMMER
USSR, 1958, 92mn 
Colour, fiction
The Girl with a Guitar
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Девушка с гитарой

 

 La Jeune fille à la guitare

 Devyshka s gitaroy

 
Directed by : Aleksandr FAINTSIMMER (Александр ФАЙНЦИММЕР)
Writing credits : Boris LASKIN (Борис ЛАСКИН), Vladimir POLYAKOV (Владимир ПОЛЯКОВ)
 
Cast
Lyudmila GURCHENKO (Людмила ГУРЧЕНКО) ...Tanya
Mikhail ZHAROV (Михаил ЖАРОВ) ...Sviristinsky
Faina RANEVSKAIA (Фаина РАНЕВСКАЯ) ...Sviristinskaya
Sergey FILIPPOV (Сергей ФИЛИППОВ) ...Mamin
Yuri NIKULIN (Юрий НИКУЛИН) ...failed pyrotechnician
 
Cinematography : Aleksey TEMERIN (Алексей ТЕМЕРИН)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 31,9 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
The action of the lyric musical comedy takes place during the VI World Yourth Festival which was held in Moscow in 1957. The film includes some documentary shots showing this great event. Tanya Fedosova whose charm, vivacity and nice voice attract customers, works in the record department of a music shop. Svirtinsky, the shop manager, is very pleased with it and does his best to keep Tanya at work. But she dreams to become a drama actress. Tanya has to overcome many misapprehensions before she finds her true vocation - singing.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

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Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet musicals, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024

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