The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin

Nov 6, 1989

1h 28m

★ 3.6

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Gorky Film Studios

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Cast

Sandro Chegemba

Aleksandr Feklistov

Stalin

Aleksey Petrenko

Kalinin

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Voroshilov

Sergey Nikonenko

Beriya

Valentin Gaft

KGB officer

Mikhail Kononov

Yuriy Kara

Nina, Beria's wife

Larisa Belogurova

Nestor Lakoba

Aleksei Safonov

Tamara Yandiyeva

Sergey Nikolaev

Sergei Maksachyov

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