Ilya FREZ
Илья ФРЭЗ
Ilia FREZ
USSR, 1970, 78mn 
Colour, fiction
The Adventures of the yellow suitcase
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Приключения желтого чемоданчика

 

 Les Aventures de la petite valise jaune

 Priklyucheniya zholtogo chemodanchika

 
Directed by : Ilya FREZ (Илья ФРЭЗ)
Writing credits : Ilya FREZ (Илья ФРЭЗ), Sofia PEOKOFIEVA (Софья ПРОКОФЬЕВА)
 
Cast
Boris BYSTROV (Борис БЫСТРОВ) ...le pilote Valentin Veriovkine
Vika CHERNAKOVA (Вика ЧЕРНАКОВА) ...Toma
Andrei_2 GROMOV (Андрей_2 ГРОМОВ) ...Petia
Yevgeni LEBEDEV (Евгений ЛЕБЕДЕВ) ...docteur
Tatyana PELTSER (Татьяна ПЕЛЬТЦЕР) ...Anna Petrovna Veriovkina
Natalia SELEZNYOVA (Наталья СЕЛЕЗНЕВА) ...Mama Peti
Yevgeni VESNIK (Евгений ВЕСНИК) ...le commandant du ciel
 
Cinematography : Mikhail KIRILLOV (Михаил КИРИЛЛОВ)
Production design : Noy SENDEROV (Ной СЕНДЕРОВ)
Music : Yan FRENKEL (Ян ФРЕНКЕЛЬ)
Sound : Vartan ERAMISHEV (Вартан ЕРАМИШЕВ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio
Spectators : 15 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico.
Subtitles : RU EN

Plot synopsis
In some town there once lived very nice and unusual children – a boy named Petya and a girl named Toma. Toma had an illness of “the never-laughing tsarevna” – she just couldn’t stop crying. And Petya was a coward, the likes of which the world had never known. A very kind, and very strange, doctor agreed to cure the kids. He had in his yellow suitcase some very rare medicines against anger and malice, cowardice, stupidity, sadness and lying. But by some improbable coincidences, the magic suitcase had disappeared, along with all its magic candies. Endangered now were the lives of Toma’s grandmother, pilot Veryovkin and tiger-tamer Bulankin…
Source : ruscico.com
 

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Reviews from Russian viewers

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2009

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