This late 60s Russian films is set in 1920, just 3 years after the October revolution. Folks had the choice between red and white, revolution and contra revolution. In that torn-apart-time, one man, the comedian Volodya, tries to mediate, not between different ideologies, but social life and art. While others just want to wash away their gloom, he reflects on the everyday sorrows and the role of art in that time of changes.
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Oleg Tabakov as Iskremas / Cuckoo
Elena Proklova as Krysya / Jeanne d'Arc
Oleg Efremov as Painter
Evgeni Leonov as Cinematographer
Leonid Kuravlyov as Red comissar
Leonid Dyachkov as Ohrim, green agent
Marlen Khutsiyev as Third 'cuckoo' player (prince)
Nonna Mordyukova as White actress
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov as shooter
Aleksandr Filippenko as Second 'cuckoo' player
Pavel Vinnik as husband in silent film
Lyubov Sokolova as Painter's wife
Vladimir Naumov as staff captain
Konstantin Voynov as white officer
Mikaela Drozdovskaya as staff captain's wife
Anatoly Yeliseyev as Vakhromeev
Lev Polyakov as lover in silent film
Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya as tall dancer
Irina Murzayeva as female pianist
Nikolai Nikolayev-Nikolsky as
Rogvold Sukhoverko as bandit (uncredited)
Aleksandr Milyutin as guard
Evgeny Mitta as spectator (uncredited)
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