Dangerous Tour (film)
Dangerous Tour | |
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Directed by | Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich |
Written by | Mikhail Melkumov |
Produced by | Sergey Tsyvilko |
Starring | Vladimir Vysotsky Yefim Kopelyan Nikolai Grinko Ivan Pereverzev Georgi Yumatov |
Cinematography | Fedor Silchenko |
Music by | Oleksandr Bilash |
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Running time | 87 min |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Dangerous Tour (Russian: Опасные гастроли, romanized: Opasnye gastroli) is a 1969 Soviet historical musical film directed by Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich.[1] The film is set in Odessa in the year 1910. A local cabaret theatre is operating as a front organization for the Bolsheviks.
Plot
[edit]The setting of the film is Odessa in the year 1910. A certain Frenchman, Viscount de Cordelia, with the permission of the governor and the "fathers" of the town organizes a cabaret theater. The entertainers who perform there include the singer Bengalsky, a charming dancer, a gypsy duet and of course also a corps de ballet.
However it turns out that this lively place was created by the Bolsheviks. It is a front for the work of a whole group of underground revolutionaries who are under the nose of the enemy with the theater serving as a cover.[1]
Cast
[edit]- Vladimir Vysotsky as George Bengalsky (Nikolay Kovalenko)
- Yefim Kopelyan as Ivan Tarielovich Bobruisky-Dumbadze, police chief[2]
- Nikolai Grinko as Andrey Maksimovic (Viscount de Cordelia)
- Ivan Pereverzev as Kazimierz Kazimirovich Kulbras, Governor General
- Georgi Yumatov as Maksim
- Kira Muratova as Nina
- Borislav Brondukov as watchman
- S. Krupnin as Ali Baba
- Viktor Pavlovsky
- Vladimir Gulyaev
- Valentin Kulik
Production
[edit]Although the film was shot in Odessa and the suburbs, some background shots were shot in Leningrad.[3]
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- 1969 films
- 1969 action films
- 1960s Soviet films
- 1960s Russian-language films
- 1960s historical musical films
- 1960s historical action films
- Soviet historical musical films
- Soviet historical action films
- Films set in 1910
- Films set in Odesa
- Odesa Film Studio films
- Vladimir Vysotsky
- 1969 in the Soviet Union
- Films scored by Oleksandr Bilash
- Films about nobility
- Films set in cabarets
- 1960s Soviet film stubs
- Musical film stubs