We're from Jazz

Jun 6, 1983

1h 29m

★ 6.7

Overview

A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.

Genres

Music

Comedy

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Kostya Ivanov

Igor Sklyar

Stepan Grushko

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy

Zhura Ryabov

Nikolai Averyushkin

Ivan Bavurin

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Katya Bobrova

Elena Tsyplakova

'Papa'

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Zhora

Pyotr Merkuryev

Kolbashev

Boryslav Brondukov

Samsonov

Leonid Kuravlyov

Orlov

Yuri Vasilyev

Musician (uncredited)

Anatoli Kroll

Clementine

Larisa Dolina

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