Overview
Plot
A boy named Mitiya lives with an eccentric older friend in an apartment house on Moscow's Old Arbat Street, surrounded by vendors, poor young artists, and musicians. The building becomes a surreal miniature of late-Soviet society.
- Directors
- Sergei Solovyov
- Cast
- Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksandr Zbruev, Ludmila Savelyeva, Aleksandr Bashirov, Mikhail Danilov, Yuriy Shumilo, Ilya Ivanov, Mikhail Rozanov, Assan Kuiatte, Georgy Saakyan, Sergei Makarov, Viktor Beshlyaga, Valeri Burtashov, Anna Drubich, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Boris Grebenshchikov
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Genre
- Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Release date
- 1990-01-15
- Studios
- Mosfilm, Krug
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Set mainly around Old Arbat Street in central Moscow, a hub for vendors and struggling young artists and musicians, the film centers on a boy named Mitiya who shares an apartment house with an eccentric elder friend. The people Mitiya encounters are unique and eccentric, and the apartment building gradually takes on an unrealistic character as a miniature of the unstable society at the end of the Soviet Union.
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