A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love

A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love

1990 · 139 min · ★ 6.4 · Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, Drama

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Directed by Sergei Solovyov · Written by Sergei Solovyov

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Tatyana Drubich Александра
Aleksandr Abdulov Владимир
Aleksandr Zbruev отец Александры Илья
Ludmila Savelyeva мать Александры
Aleksandr Bashirov Толик (Анатолий Феоктистович Гнилюга, лимитчик)
Mikhail Danilov тесть Владимира
Yuriy Shumilo генерал Брежнев / культурист-ниндзя
Ilya Ivanov Николай Плевакин - «дядя Кока»
Mikhail Rozanov Митя
Assan Kuiatte прогрессивный негр
Georgy Saakyan И.В. Сталин
Sergei Makarov пациент больницы

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