Musical Story
1940 · 84 min · ★ 4.8 · Romance, Music, Comedy
Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.
Directed by Herbert Rappaport · Written by Georgi Munblit
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Sergey Lemeshev Petya Govorkov -
Zoya Fyodorova Klava Belkina -
Erast Garin Cabbie Tarahkanov -
Nikolai Konovalov Maestro Makedonsky -
Anatoly Korolkevich Pankov -
Sergei Filippov Babashkin
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