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A Star of the Screen

1974

A gentle, good-natured Soviet comedy about illusions meeting reality, pleasant and a little sentimental without ever being taxing.

Directed by
Vladimir Gorikker
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Valentina Smelkova, Vera Vasileva, Mikhail Pugovkin
Overview
A young actress before playing in the movie legendary partisan, looking for everyone who knew her character. And suddenly learns that the fearless guerrilla is alive and works as the Director of resort hotel where the film crew stopped. Then follow the exciting meeting of the rising movie star with the heroine of the glorious past and the truth of life…

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Directed by
Vladimir Gorikker
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Valentina Smelkova, Vera Vasileva, Mikhail Pugovkin
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • memory
  • war
  • media
  • healing
Places
  • countryside
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Vladimir Gorikker
Written by
Vladimir Gorikker, Boris Ratser, Vladimir Konstantinov
Starring
Valentina Smelkova, Vera Vasileva, Mikhail Pugovkin, Nikolai Merzlikin, Viktor Ilichyov, Aleksandr Lazarev, Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova, Savely Kramarov
Cinematography
Valeri Bazylev
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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