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 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 |
Production company | |
Release date | 5 March 1929 |
Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Silent Russian intertitles |
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 edit
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