Russian Souvenir

1960 film

Lyubov Orlova
Andrei Popov
Pavel Kadochnikov
Erast Garin
Elina Bystritskaya

CinematographyGrigoriy AyzenbergEdited byZoya VeryovkinaMusic byKirill Molchanov

Production
company

Mosfilm

Release date

1960 (1960)

Running time

107 min.CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

Russian Souvenir (Russian: Русский сувенир, romanized: Russkiy suvenir) is a 1960 Soviet comedy film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Varvara Komarova in a company with foreigners is sent by plane to Beijing. After the forced landing of an aircraft on the shore of Lake Baikal, tourists observe life in the USSR and understand that the Russians are a peace-loving people with whom you can exist in harmony.^[3]

Cast

Lyubov Orlova as Varvara Komarova^[4]
Andrei Popov as Adlai Hunter Scott, American millionaire and writer
Pavel Kadochnikov as Homer Jones, Mr. Scott's secretary and American writer of Canadian descent
Erast Garin as Jones Peebles, Master of Theology, misogynist and bachelor
Elina Bystritskaya as Maria Pandora (Barbara) Montesi, Italian Countess^[5]
Aleksandr Barushnoy as Doctor Adams
Valentin Gaft as Claude Gerard, French composer
Liu Zhi Chang as Chinese pilot Wang
Anastasia Zuyeva as Yegorkina
Georgiy Budarov as Yegorkin
Alla Budnitskaya as interpreter Larisa Kurlychkina
Boris Novikov as worker Safonov ^[6]
Kola Beldy as student^[7]

References

^ Вот тебе Аксинья. Почему Элину Быстрицкую помнят по роли в «Тихом Доне»?
^ Тайны советского кино: «Бриллиантовая рука» была неслыханной наглостью
^ Русский сувенир at the KinoPoisk
^ Peter Rollberg Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema at Google Books
^ Элина Быстрицкая: К возрасту я отношусь философски
^ Прощайте, голуби! (1961)
^ «Увезу тебя я в тундру»: даже рокеры из «ЧайФа» аплодировали Кола Бельды