A Hare over the Abyss

A Hare over the Abyss

2006 · 90 min · ★ 6.7 · Romance, Comedy

Once upon a time, in the seventy-first year of the last century, the relived two bureaucrats in Moldova: the First Secretary and the Second Secretary of the Communist party. The Second Secretary was more important than the First Secretary, since he had befriended the Tsar of the whole Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev. The Moldovan Republic is preparing for a visit from the great Brezhnev when Lautar, a poor musician, finally gets up the nerve to ask the local gypsy Baron for his daughters hand in marriage. To everyone surprise, the baron gives the couple his blessing, but on one condition: that Lautar acquire Brezhnev's personal limousine as a gift for the bride, and that Brezhnev come to the wedding

Directed by Tigran Keosayan · Written by Dmitri Ivanov

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Bohdan Stupka Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
Vladimir Ilin Ivan Nikitich
Yuriy Stoyanov Siemion Kuzmitch
Sergey Gazarov Gipsy baron
Mikhail Efremov Colonel Blyndu
Valeriya Lanskaya Baron's daughter
Elena Safonova Elizabeth II
Vartan Darakchyan Lautar
Igor Zolotovitsky
Alyona Khmelnitskaya
Ramis Ibragimov
Alena Bulat

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