A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears (1976)
A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...
Director: Igor Usov
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Sergei Krupennikov as Andrey Popov |
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Yuliya Shulepova as Prince / Princess |
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Sergei Filippov as Chess King |
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Vladimir Trukhanov as Pattison |
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Georgiy Vitsin as Krivello / Jack of Spades |
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Valentina Kosobutskaya as Dvuliche / Queen of Spades |
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Oleg Popov as Mag Univer |
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Valentin Nikulin as Joker |
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Yevgeni Morgunov as Tuz |
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Valentina Kovel as Kargan / Queen of Spades |
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Anatoly Alekseev as chief of the guard |
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Yevgeniya Vetlova as Evgeniya Aleksandrovna |
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Pavel Pankov as doctor |
| Directing | Igor Usov | Director |
| Writing | Arnold Vitol | Writer |
| Writing | Sergey Mikhalkov | Theatre Play |
| Art | Igor Vuskovich | Production Design |
| Camera | Alexander Dibrivny | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Andrey Petrov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Grigori Elbert | Sound Director |
| Directing | Lidiya Dukhnitskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Svetlana Proskurina | Assistant Director Trainee |
| Camera | Viktor Tupitsyn | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Tatyana Shapiro | Editor |
| Writing | T. Kalinina | Lyricist |
| Writing | Yuri Kholin | Script Editor |
| Crew | O. Tarasova | Choreographer |
| Sound | L. Spivak | Conductor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Liliya Moshkina | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vasili Goryunov | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Yuriy Smirnov | Set Decoration |
| Visual Effects | Dmitriy Zhelubovskiy | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | O. Nikolayev | VFX Artist |
| Visual Effects | N. Dubrovo | Visual Effects Camera |
| Visual Effects | O. Akulov | VFX Artist |
| Editing | T. Matrosova | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | L. Gukhman | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | V. Savosin | Sound Assistant |
| Art | Galina Khomchenko | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | N. Pilyavskaya | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | Nikolai Pilyavskiy | Assistant Production Design |
| Camera | V. Kogan | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | V. Kiryukhin | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | A. Shinin | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | S. Greydinger | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | B. Bugunova | Second Assistant Director |
| Lighting | Ye. Zarkh | Lighting Director |
| Crew | Lidiya Ostretsova | Animal Wrangler |
| Sound | Anatoli Badkhen | Conductor |
| Production | K. Varshavskiy | Administration |
| Production | Z. Voskresenskaya | Administration |
| Production | S. Zeleneva | Administration |
| Production | Viktor Borodin | Executive Producer |
| Production | V. Kazuto | Executive Producer |
