A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love (1990)

6.6/10 139 min Fantasy Comedy Romance Drama

Overview

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Cast

Tatyana Drubich

Александра

Aleksandr Abdulov

Владимир

Aleksandr Zbruev

отец Александры Илья

Ludmila Savelyeva

мать Александры

Aleksandr Bashirov

Толик (Анатолий Феоктистович Гнилюга, лимитчик)

Mikhail Danilov

тесть Владимира

Ilya Ivanov

Николай Плевакин - «дядя Кока»

Mikhail Rozanov

Митя

Georgy Saakyan

И.В. Сталин

Vladimir Skomarovsky

эпизод

Boris Grebenshchikov

вокал

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