LYANA

DIRECTOR BORIS BARNET
Script BORIS BARNET, LIVIU CORNEANU,
VALENTIN EZHOV

Camera JOSEPH MARTOV

Design IGOR BAKHMETIEV

Music SHIKO ARANOV

Cast KYUNNA IGNATOVA, ALEXANDER SHVORIN,
LEONID GAIDAI, RADNER MURATOV,
MUZA KREPKOGORSKAYA, EUGENIU URECHE,
DMITRY LYSENKO, KONSTANTIN KONSTANTINOV,
NIKOLAI GORLOV, VALENTINA TELEGINA

Production GORKY FILM STUDIO
USSR, 1955, 73’
Leonid Gaidai’s first experience in cinema as an actor and trainee director.

A funny story of three talented young men Andriy, Alyosha, Grisha and their girlfriends, Lyana and Paraskica. The heroes live, fall in love and work in a prosperous Moldovan collective farm in the mid-1950’s. Having won the republican amateur art competition in Chișinău, the friends are to go to Moscow, but it turns out that only their girl-friends will go there.

BORIS BARNET