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.
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.