Nameless Star

Nameless Star
Directed by Mikhail Kozakov
Written by Aleksander Khmelik
Starring
Narrated by Mikhail Kozakov
Music by Edison Denisov
Cinematography Vladimir Ivanov
Edited by Lyudmila Chuso
Production
company
Release date
 1979 (1979)
Running time
 129 min.
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Nameless Star (Russian: Безымянная звезда, translit. Bezymyannaya zvezda) is a 1979 Soviet romantic comedy television film directed by Mikhail Kozakov and based on the play of the same name by Mihail Sebastian.[1][2]

Plot

Romania, 1930s. In a provincial town where everyone knows each other, an extraordinary event is taking place. At the railway station late in the evening, the diesel-electric train "Bucharest-Sinai" comes to an end, which usually always passes here without stopping. The express train is stopped by the conductor of the train to throw out a stowaway passenger named Mona, who travels to Bucharest. She is clad in a luxurious dress and hat, and does not have anything in her pockets, except chips for playing in the casino. By the will of fate at the same time at the station she meets the cosmography teacher of the local gymnasium Marin Miroiu.

Miroiu offers the stranger a lodging for the night at his bachelor's home, while he himself plans to spend the night with his friend, music teacher Udri. She agrees. However, having remained alone with him, Mona is looking for an excuse not to let Marin go. Mona learns the secret of Marin - he talks about a star which he discovered, which is not in any astronomical catalog. They are happy together this night ...

In the morning Mona again disrupts the inner world of Marin Miroiu by telling him her decision to stay with him forever.

Meanwhile, Mona is sought by her lover Grig who finds her at the forlorn teacher's house. Granting Grig for her brother, Mona expresses a desire to stay in this town. With arguments and cynical assertions, Grig convinces Mona that she has no place in the province, after which they leave this town forever.

And so Marin remains alone with the truth, which he comprehends in his astronomical observations: "No star deviates from its path."

Cast

  • Anastasiya Vertinskaya - Mona, the capital's guest
  • Igor Kostolevsky - Marin Miroiu, the teacher of astronomy
  • Mikhail Kozakov - Grig, Mona's friend / narrator
  • Grigory Lyampe - Mr. Udrea, music teacher, composer
  • Svetlana Kryuchkova - mademoiselle Cucu, a classy lady
  • Mikhail Svetin - Mr. Ispas, the head of the station
  • Irina Savina - Eleonora Zamfirescu, a schoolgirl
  • Alla Budnitskaya - Mrs. Ispas, the wife of the station's chief (voiced by another actress)
  • Ilya Rutberg - Mr. Pascu, the owner of the department store
  • Alexander Pyatkov - Ichim, assistant to the head of the station (voiced by Rogvold Sukhoverko)
  • V. Dorrer - Madame Georgescu
  • Semyon Berlin - Lascu, the judge (sounded by Yuri Sarantsev)
  • Evgeny Tilicheev - conductor of a diesel-electric train
  • Vladimir Kurashkin - Mr. Ciroiu, notary

References

  1. ↑ "Безымянная звезда". Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema.
  2. ↑ "Безымянная звезда". VokrugTV.

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