| The Happy Canary | |
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| Directed by | Lev Kuleshov |
| Written by | Boris Gusman Anatoli Marienhof |
| Cinematography | Boris Frantsisson Pyotr Yermolov |
| Edited by | Lev Kuleshov |
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Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Silent Russian intertitles |
The Happy Canary or The Gay Canary (Russian: Весёлая канарейка, romanized: Vesyolaya kanareyka) is a 1929 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Galina Kravchenko, Andrey Fayt and Ada Vojtsik.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Sergei Kozlovsky.
Plot
[edit]Actress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brianski and Lugovec are Communists sent by an underground committee to fight the enemy's counter-intelligence ...
Cast
[edit]- Galina Kravchenko as Brio
- Andrey Fayt as Lugovec
- Ada Vojtsik as Lugovec' wife
- Sergey Komarov as Brianski
- Yuri Vasilchikov as Assistant Chief Secret Service
- Mikhail Doronin as Chief Secret Service
- Vladimir Kochetov as French communist soldier
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Illusionist
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as Workman
- N. Kopysov as Workman
- Aleksandr Zhutaev as Workman
Reception
[edit]Henri Barbusse described Gay Canary as "an amusing picture of the fever of revels and intrigues which took possession of Odessa during the foreign occupation ten years ago".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Christie & Taylor p.429
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 270.
Bibliography
[edit]- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
External links
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