The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin (1989)
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Director:
Yuriy Kara
Writer:
Fazil Iskander
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Aleksandr Feklistov as Sandro Chegemba |
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Aleksey Petrenko as Stalin |
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Evgeniy Evstigneev as Kalinin |
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Sergey Nikonenko as Voroshilov |
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Valentin Gaft as Beriya |
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Mikhail Kononov as KGB officer |
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Yuriy Kara as |
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Larisa Belogurova as Nina, Beria's wife |
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Aleksei Safonov as Nestor Lakoba |
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Tamara Yandiyeva as |
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Sergey Nikolaev as |
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Sergei Maksachyov as |
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Stanislav Korenev as |
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Viktor Makhmutov as |
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Evgeniy Tetervov as |
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Mikhail Bocharov as |
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Yuri Morozov as |
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Vladimir Tyurin as |
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Valeriy Denisov as |
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Boris Gitin as |
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Vyacheslav Gurenkov as |
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Vladimir Sklyarov as |
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Anatoly Petrov as |
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Fyodor Smirnov as |
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Sergey Silkin as |
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Aleksandr Medzmariashvili as |
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Vladimir Dontsov as |
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Vladimir Nekrasov as сотрудник НКВД |
| Directing | Yuriy Kara | Director |
| Sound | Edison Denisov | Music |
| Art | Anatoly Kochurov | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Berta Kuratova | Costume Design |
| Art | Boris Kuzovkin | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Fazil Iskander | Screenplay |
| Writing | Fazil Iskander | Novel |
| Editing | Alla Myakotina | Editor |
| Camera | Vadim Semyonovykh | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Radchuk | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Gleb Kravetsky | Sound Director |
| Directing | Olga Dobrova-Kulikova | Assistant Director |