A Canary Cage (1983)
The film follows the chance encounter between two teenagers in crisis - Olesya and Victor. They both feel trapped and are looking for their way out. Olesya ran away from home and is waiting for her father to step off the train from Riga, while Victor desperately wants to get to Riga, or to some other place where people are truly good.
Director: Pavel Chukhray
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Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya as Olesya |
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Vyacheslav Baranov as Victor |
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Alisa Freyndlikh as Olesya's Mother |
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Semyon Farada as |
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Valentina Ananina as |
| Writing | Pavel Chukhray | Writer |
| Directing | Pavel Chukhray | Director |
| Writing | Anatolij Sergeev | Writer |
| Writing | Anatolij Sergeev | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Mikhail Bits | Director of Photography |
| Art | Soviet Agoyan | Production Design |
| Art | Leonid Svintsitskiy | Production Design |
| Writing | Veronika Dolina | Lyricist |
| Sound | Veronika Dolina | Songs |
| Sound | Igor Kantyukov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Igor Kantyukov | Music Arranger |
| Sound | Semyon Litvinov | Sound Director |
| Sound | Konstantin Krimets | Conductor |
| Directing | Vyacheslav Vrachyov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | E. Kerch | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Belyakova | Costume Design |
| Editing | Antonina Zimina | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | N. Ilyina | Makeup Artist |
| Visual Effects | Viktor Zhanov | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | Albert Rudachenko | VFX Artist |
| Writing | S. Tarasenko | Script Consultant |
| Writing | Lyudmila Shmuglyakova | Script Editor |
| Sound | Minna Blank | Music Editor |
| Production | Dmitriy Zaytsev | Executive Producer |