In 1985, perestroika began in the Soviet Union and the Laskovy May group appeared. At their concerts there were only full houses, from unrequited love for them, suicides were committed. The figure of Mikhail Gorbachev faded in the glory of the creator of "Tender May" - Andrei Razin. An accidental photo taken on the beach, where Andrei Razin, as a child, was captured with the Gorbachev family, turned his fate upside down. It was with the help of this photograph that he became Gorbachev's nephew. He did not say this directly - just hinted, and he was instantly believed. Functionaries of all ranks acted without delay: the doors of television and radio opened before him, the Soviet stage lay at his feet. Razin traveled to all the orphanages of the Soviet Union in search of gifted children for his twin groups.
Acting
Manucharov's slippery charisma makes you root for the scam.
Production
Gritty recreation of 80s USSR's gray-market glamour.
Director
Vladimir Vinogradov
Vyacheslav Manucharov
Andrei Razin
Yekaterina Fedulova
Lilia
Maksim Litovchenko
projectionist
Sergey Romanovich
Yura Shatunov
Petr Skvortsov
Kolian
Inga Strelkova-Oboldina
teacher
Lyudmila Zaytseva
grandmother
Maxim Kostromykin
Maksim
Dmitriy Blokhin
chairman of the kolkhoz
Marina Oryol
Katen'ka
Aleksandr Fisenko
komsomol
Vladimir Steklov
chairman of the Gosteleradio
Raisa Ryazanova
director of children's home
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Andrei Razin still claims distant relation to Gorbachev despite genealogical proof otherwise.
Laskovy May's 'White Roses' became the unofficial anthem of Soviet collapse—sung by teens who'd never seen capitalism.
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