A punk rocker, a mob boss's girl, and the assassination of a tsar walk into Soviet cinema history.
Direction
Solovyov mashes 19th century and 1980s with reckless abandon
Costume
Punk fashion colliding with imperial Russian uniforms
Director
Sergey Solovyov
Sergei Bugayev
Бананан
Tatyana Drubich
Алика
Stanislav Govorukhin
Андрей Валентинович Крымов
Aleksandr Bashirov
«Майор» Шурик
Alexandr Domogarov
Александр I
Kirill Kozakov
Платон Зубов
Viktor Tsoi
Музыкант
Aleksandr Sporykhin
псих в обезьяннике
Georgi Guryanov
Георгий Гурьянов
Igor Tikhomirov
Игорь Тихомиров
Yuri Kasparyan
Юрий Каспарян
Sergey Ryzhenko
скрипач
Timur Novikov
Тимур Новиков
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sergei Bugayev's stage name 'Africa' became legendary; he was a real St. Petersburg punk artist, not an actor.
The film was nearly banned for its nihilism but became a perestroika-era touchstone, with Tsoi's scene shot just months before his death.
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