Carnival Night
1956 · directed by Eldar Ryazanov
- Rating
- 72/100
- Hit
- no
It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.
Carnival Night (1956), directed by Eldar Ryazanov, rates 72/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Igor Ilyinsky
- Lyudmila Gurchenko
- Yuri Belov
- Georgiy Kulikov
- Sergei Filippov
- Olga Vlasova
- Andrei Tutyshkin
- Tamara Nosova
- Gennadi Yudin
- Vladimir Zeldin
Crew
- Arkadi Koltsaty — Director of Photography
- Aleksandra Kamagorova — Editor
- Anatoliy Lepin — Original Music Composer
- Boris Laskin — Screenplay
- Vladimir Polyakov — Screenplay
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- Office Romance (1977) — 80/100 · hit
- Beware of the Car! (1966) — 78/100
- The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976) — 77/100 · TV film, not counted
- The Garage (1979) — 77/100
- Station for Two (1983) — 76/100
- Ruthless Romance (1984) — 76/100
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