Far from Sunset Boulevard
Original Title
Daleko ot Sanset Bulvara- Director: Igor Minaiev
- Writer: Olga Mikhaylova; Igor Minaiev
- Producer: Vladilen Arseniev; Aleksandr Bolovikov; Vladilen Arsenev
CGiii Comment
Taking place in the 1930s Soviet cinema world, centers on Constantin Dalmatov, a young assistant director who returns to Moscow from a long journey in the United States with his lover Mansourov, a famous homosexual film director. The Russian political police exerts loathsome blackmailing pressure on Dalmatov; and though he's allowed to realize his dreams of filming musicals, Dalmatov feels his life is constantly threatened. Thus, and in order to hide his homosexuality, he marries his leading female actress, Lidia Poliakova. Besides sudden and fake success, Dalmatov and Poliakova know nothing but fear and shame.
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Cast & Characters
Serguei Tsiss as Dalmatov;
Yuliya Svezhakova as Poliakova;
Igor Dmitriyev as Dalmatov old;
Tatyana Samojlova as Poliakova old;
Boris Nevzorov as Mansourov;
Alexandre Berda as Nazarov;
Lembit Ulfsak as Berg operator;
Ivan Shibanov as Magician;
Tatyana Sheliga as Ada Nikolaievna;
Alexandre Kolstov as Poliakova's partner;
Sergey Tsyss as Konstantin Dalmatov;
Tatyana Samoylova as Lidiya Polyakova;
Igor Dmitriev as Konstantin Dalmatov;
Aleksandr Berda as Nazarov;
Aleksandr Koltsov as Partner Polyakovoy