A Russian Cyrano? This 1989 Soviet adaptation dares to out-romance the French themselves.
Acting
Hlady's Cyrano: wounded pride in every gesture, that nose practically acts solo.
Production
Soviet-era grandeur on shoestring budget — somehow it works.
Director
Naum Birman
Gregory Hlady
Сирано де Бержерак
Olga Kabo
Роксана
Andrey Podoshian
Кристиан де Невильет - гвардеец
Valeri Ivchenko
граф де Гиш - полковник гвардейцев
Viktor Stepanov
Карбон - капитан гвардейцев
Sergey Migitsko
Вальвер - вельможа
Mikhail Svetin
Рагно - кондитер
Gali Abaydulov
директор театра - конферансье
Sergey Bekhterev
Igor Dmitriev
Georgi Martirosyan
Artur Vakha
Andrey Smirnov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during perestroika with costumes borrowed from Leningrad's Kirov Theatre. The nose itself was a hand-me-down from a 1970s production.
Rostand's play was banned in USSR until 1953 as 'bourgeois individualism'; this adaptation arrived as glasnost allowed romantic heroism to return.
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