How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea

How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea (Russian: В городе Сочи тёмные ночи, romanized: V gorode Sochi tyomnye nochi, lit. In the city of Sochi, the nights are dark) is a 1989 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasili Pichul. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea
Original French film poster
Directed byVasili Pichul
Produced byMark Levin
Written byMariya Khmelik
StarringAleksei Zharkov
Natalya Negoda
Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Alexander Lenkov
CinematographyYefim Reznikov
Edited byYelena Zabolotskaya
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
115 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Cast

  • Aleksei Zharkov as Stepanych, seasoned conman
  • Natalya Negoda as Lena
  • Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Lena's mother
  • Alexander Lenkov as Lena's father
  • Anna Tikhonova as Jeanne, shopgirl
  • Grigori Manukov as Oleg Strelnikov
  • Aleksandr Negreba as head of theatre
  • Aleksandr Mironov as policeman
  • Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as Fedor Fedorovich Strelnikov
  • Andrei Sokolov as Boris, Stepanych's son
  • Igor Zolotovitsky as Gubanischev
  • Levan Mskhiladze as Sasha, Lena's former groom
  • Maria Yevstigneyeva as Marina, Lena's former friend
  • Yuri Nazarov as Glazier, criminal
  • Boris Smorchkov as Jeanne's father
  • Inna Ulyanova as lady in the restaurant
  • Yervant Arzumanyan as Ashot Aramovich, theatre director
  • Alexandra Tabakova as Masha
  • Andrey Fomin as playwright
  • Nadezhda Markina as Sonya, Oleg Strelnikov's wife

References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2009.


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