Carnival Night

Carnival Night
Original film poster by Mikhail Heifits, 1956.
Directed byEldar Ryazanov
Written byBoris Laskin
Vladimir Polyakov
StarringIgor Ilyinsky
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Yuri Belov
CinematographyArkadi Koltsaty
Music byAnatoli Lepin
Production
company
Release dates
  • 1956 (1956) (Soviet Union)
  • November 2, 1957 (1957-11-02) (U.S.)
Running time
78 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian
Box office48.64 million tickets sold.[1]

Carnival Night (Russian: Карнавальная ночь, romanized: Karnavalnaya noch) is a 1956 Soviet musical film.[2][3] It is Eldar Ryazanov's first big-screen film, Lyudmila Gurchenko's first role and also one of the most famous films starring popular comedian Igor Ilyinsky.

Produced during the Khrushchev Thaw, the film became the Soviet box office leader of 1956 with a total of 48.64 million tickets sold.[1][4] Today it remains a highly popular New Year's Eve classic in Russia and the post-Soviet space.[5]

  1. ^ a b Anna Veligzhanina. ""Карнавальная ночь": Рязанов не хотел снимать Людмилу Гурченко". Komsomolskaya Pravda.
  2. ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. ^ "Карнавальная ночь". VokrugTV.
  4. ^ Birgit Beumers (2005). Pop Culture Russia!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle. p. 78. ISBN 1-85109-459-8.
  5. ^ "Карнавальной ночи" - 65 лет: как снимали музыкальную кинокомедию. In Russian