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A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears (1976)
Directed by Igor Usov
Family, Fantasy, Adventure · 2h 13m
A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...
Cast
Sergei Krupennikov
Andrey Popov
Yuliya Shulepova
Prince / Princess
Sergei Filippov
Chess King
Vladimir Trukhanov
Pattison
Georgiy Vitsin
Krivello / Jack of Spades
Valentina Kosobutskaya
Dvuliche / Queen of Spades
Oleg Popov
Mag Univer
Valentin Nikulin
Joker
Yevgeni Morgunov
Tuz
Valentina Kovel
Kargan / Queen of Spades
Anatoliy Alekseev
chief of the guard
Yevgeniya Vetlova
Evgeniya Aleksandrovna
Crew
- Director
- Igor Usov
- Writer
- Arnold Vitol
- Director of Photography
- Alexander Dibrivny
- Original Music Composer
- Andrey Petrov
- Editor
- Tatyana Shapiro
Details
- Original title
- Веселое сновидение, или смех сквозь слезы
- Release date
- 1976-06-06
- Runtime
- 2h 13m
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy, Adventure
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm