When the Song Does Not End... (1965)
A combination of performances by masters of their arts, this film takes place during the Leningradskoye Leto – the Leningrad "White Nights" annual summer musical festival, featuring music stars, young opera singers, ballet, pop, circus, and amateur artists. Reporters Kostya and Bob are rushing everywhere trying to document the entire festival. Beautiful young singer Svetlana is pursued throughout the festive events by a hopelessly shy police lieutenant, whose unexpected infatuation leaves him unable to speak, but gives him a beautiful baritone voice.
Director: Roman Tikhomirov
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Aleksandr Bronevitsky as |
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Muslim Magomayev as singer |
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Georg Ots as singer |
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Edita Pyekha as singer |
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Arkadiy Raykin as pantomime "Fishing" |
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Lyudmila Zykina as singer |
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Natalia Makarova as Swan |
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Galina Spoludennaya as Svetlana Nevskaya |
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Dalvin Shcherbakov as police lieutenant |
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Tamara Milashkina as singer |
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Anatoli Shalayev as |
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Stepan Razumov as |
| Directing | Roman Tikhomirov | Director |
| Sound | Niyazi | Conductor |
| Camera | Yevgeni Shapiro | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Anatoli Badkhen | Writer |
| Sound | Georgi Portnov | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Andrei Vagin | Production Design |
| Camera | Rostislav Davydov | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Grigori Elbert | Sound Director |
| Directing | V. Kravchenko | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Igor Belsky | Choreographer |
| Directing | N. Rykunin | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Andrey Petrov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Vasiliy Solovev-Sedoy | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Georgiy Firtich | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Vladimir Fyodorov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Konstantin Grigorev | Lyricist |
| Writing | Lev Kuklin | Lyricist |
| Writing | Solomon Fogelson | Lyricist |
| Writing | Yuzef Printsev | Lyricist |
| Writing | Isaac Glikman | Script Editor |
| Editing | I. Novozhilova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Margarita Matusova | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | A. Skorupskaya | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | A. Fedchenko | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | K. Polukhin | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Kirill Tikhomirov | Assistant Camera |
| Production | V. Kostyuchenko | Production Assistant |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Zavyalov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Georgiy Senotov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Boris Mikhaylov | VFX Artist |
| Production | Mark Ryss | Executive Producer |