Film
Carnival Night
- Director
- Eldar Ryazanov
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 78 mins
Down at the House of Culture, everyone is looking forward to a proper New Year’s Eve knees-up. Then word comes through of the appointment of a new director. Alas, he’s a boring old bastard who disapproves of fun and prefers lectures on self-improvement alongside performances of sober classics. Naturally, the workers set out to thwart these plans in this jolly 1956 box office bit Soviet musical satire, which stars popular comedian Igor Ilyinsky.
It’s on screen in the Watershed’s January Sunday brunch Melodia! Musicals from Russia and the Caucasus series, which also forms part of the BFI Musicals season.
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