We Are from Jazz

We Are from Jazz
File:We Are from Jazz.jpg A film poster
Directed by	Karen Shahnazarov
Produced by	Konstantin Forostenko
Written by	Aleksandr Borodyansky Karen Shahnazarov
Starring	Igor Sklyar Alexander Pankratov-Cherniy
Music by	Anatoli Kroll (conductor) Mark Minkov (composer) Ella Zelentsova (sound)
Cinematography	Vladimir Shevtsik
Edited by	Lidiya Milioti
Production company	Mosfilm
Release dates	1984
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

We Are from Jazz (Russian: Мы из джаза, translit. My iz dzhaza) is a Soviet comedy musical film by Karen Shahnazarov.

Plot

A student is expelled from music school because he loves jazz, and jazz at that time (film represents 1920s) is a kind of music that represents USA capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.

Cast

• Igor Sklyar as Konstantin
• Alexander Pankratov-Chorny as Stefan
• Nikolai Averyushkin as Georgi
• Pyotr Shcherbakov as Ivan
• Yelena Tsyplakova as Katie
• Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Papa
• Leonid Kuravlyov
• Borislav Brondukov as fake of Captain Kolbasyev
• Larisa Dolina as Clementine Fernandez
• Yuri Vasilyev
• Nikolai Kochegarov
• Pyotr Merkuryev
• Yuri Gusev
• Irina Mazur
• Vladimir Aleksandrov
• K. Bakhchiyev
• Vitaly Bobrov - the real Captain Kolbasyev
• K. Chakhiryan
• Boris Gitin
• O. Kazanchev
• Grigori Malikov
• Vyacheslav Patsal
• Vladimir Pitsek
• Aleksandr Pyatkov
• R. Sadykov
• Oleg Savosin
• Yekaterina Semyonova
• I. Shubin
• P. Skladchikov
• L. Yankov

External links

• We Are from Jazz at IMDb
• We Are from Jazz at AllMovie
• We Are From Jazz online at official Mosfilm site (with English subtitles)