How It Was Done in Odesa... or Odessans of All Countries, Unite!

Jan 10, 1991

★ 8.0

Overview

A concert movie dedicated to the formation of the World Club of Odesa under the leadership of Mikhail Zhvanetsky. "Let many people be proud of the expanses and fields," says Mikhail Zhvanetsky himself about his favorite city, "someone falls to his favorite birch tree, thinking that it grows only here. We have the only homeland - Odesa, the only party of Odessites. Odesa is halfway around the world, from America to Australia. Odesa is a phenomenon, an Odessite is a character. Odesa was, is and will be one of the most famous cities on this temporal globe. And we, who stayed, and you, who left, will live and live with it.... Odesa is worth dedicating your youth and old age to it, and it will repay you like a native land".

Genres

Comedy

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

VPTO Videofilm

ArtVideo Studio

World Club of Residents of Odessa

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Cast

Host/Narrator

Mikhail Zhvanetsky

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Roman Kartsev

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Viktor Ilchenko

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Yuri Rost

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Klara Novikova

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Efim Shifrin

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Oleh Shkolnyk

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Oleg Filimonov

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Aleksandr Kabakov

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Yanislav Levinzon

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Anatoliy Dneprov

Narrator

Yuri Shchekochikhin

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