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Directed by
  
Lev Kuleshov

Productioncompany
  
Mezhrabpomfilm

Running time
  
73 minutes

Director
  
Lev Kuleshov

8/10
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Edited by
  
Lev Kuleshov

Release date
  
5 March 1929

Initial release
  
1929

Production company
  
Mezhrabpomfilm

Cinematography
  
Boris FrantsissonPyotr Yermolov

Written by
  
Boris Gusman, Anatoly Marienhof

Similar
  
The Death Ray, The Great Consoler, Sibiryaki, By the Law, The Extraordinary Adventur

The Happy Canary or The Gay Canary (Russian: Весёлая канарейка, Vesyolaya kanareyka) is a 1929 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Galina Kravchenko, Andrey Fayt and Ada Vojtsik.

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The film's sets were designed by the art director Sergei Kozlovsky.

Plot

Actress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brianski and Lugovec are Communists sent by an underground committee to fight the enemy's counter-intelligence ...

Cast

  • Galina Kravchenko as Brio
  • Andrey Fayt as Lugovec
  • Ada Vojtsik as Lugovec' wife
  • Sergey Komarov as Brianski
  • Yuri Vasilchikov as Assistant Chief Secret Service
  • Mikhail Doronin as Chief Secret Service
  • Vladimir Kochetov as French comunist soldier
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin as Illusionist
  • Aleksandr Chistyakov as Workman
  • N. Kopysov as Workman
  • Aleksandr Zhutaev as Workman

    • Reception

    Henri Barbusse described Gay Canary as "an amusing picture of the fever of revels and intrigues which took possession of Odessa during the foreign occupation ten years ago".

    References

    The Happy Canary Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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