A married man fakes prison to party—his wife's revenge is *chef's kiss*.
Eisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.
Costume
Aristocratic ball gowns vs. prison uniforms—no contest.
Production
Soviet TV budget doing MOST of the work.
Director
Yan Frid
Yuriy Solomin
Eisenstein
Lyudmila Maksakova
Rosalinde
Larisa Udovichenko
Adele
Vitali Solomin
Dr. Falke
Oleg Vidov
Alfred
Igor Dmitriev
Frank
Yuri Vasilyev
Prinz Orlofsky
Yevgeni Vesnik
Prosecutor
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Amalia
Olga Volkova
Lotte
Sergei Filippov
Lesnichi
Ivan Lyubeznov
Frosch
Aleksandr Demyanenko
Dr. Blind
Marina Yurasova
гостья на балу (в титрах - Н.Юрасова)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Soviet TV adaptation of Die Fledermaus arrived when Western pop culture was officially discouraged, making Strauss in Russian a subtle subversion.
Yuriy and Vitali Solomin were actual brothers—casting them as trickster friends adds accidental meta-sibling energy to every scheme.
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