Behind the Footlights

1956 film
  • Nikolay Erdman
  • Dmitri Lensky
  • Mikhail Volpin
Starring
  • Vasiliy Merkurev
  • Liliya Yudina
  • Tatyana Karpova
  • Nikolai Afanasyev
Cinematography
  • Igor Gelein
  • Valentin Zakharov
Edited byAnna KulganekMusic byVasiliy Shirinskiy
Release date
  • 1956 (1956)
CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

Behind the Footlights (Russian: На подмостках сцены) is a 1956 Soviet musical comedy drama film directed by Konstantin Yudin.

Plot

The film tells about an elderly actor and his beautiful and gifted daughter, who dreams of becoming an actress and playing in the theater.

Cast

  • Vasili Merkuryev as Lev Gurych Sinichkin (as V. Merkuryev)
  • Liliya Yudina as Liza - Sinichkin daughter (as L. Yudina)
  • Tatyana Karpova as Surmilova, actress (as T. Karpova)
  • Nikolai Afanasyev as Prince Vetrinsky (as N. Afanasyev)
  • Mikhail Yanshin as Borzikov, dramatist (as M. Yanshin)
  • Yuri Lyubimov as Prince Zefirov (as Yu. Lyubimov)
  • Sergei Blinnikov as Pustoslavtsev, theatre keeper (as S. Blinnikov)
  • Stanislav Chekan as Stepan, coachman (as S. Chekan)
  • Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky as Prompter (as A. Samin-Nikolsky)
  • Yelena Savitskaya
  • Irina Fyodorova
  • Grigori Abrikosov
  • Pyotr Repnin
  • Yury Yakovlev as Chakhotkin (as Yu. Yakovlev)
  • Nikolay Kutuzov
  • V. Troshuk[1]

References

  1. ^ На подмостках сцены (1956) Full Cast & Crew

External links

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