Comedy ·Music ·TV Movie · Soviet Union · 1970 · 3h 32m

New Year's Abduction

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Director
Yuri Saakov
Cast
Mikhail Pugovkin as senior police lieutenant / French police officer Oleg Anofriev as «kidnapper» / amateur arts activist Savely Kramarov as «kidnapper» / amateur arts activist Evgeniy Steblov as «kidnapper» / amateur arts activist Vladimir Belokurov as Belokurov Yukhym Berezin as Berezin
Crew
Aleksandr Knyazhinsky — Director of Photography Oskar Sandler — Original Music Composer Vadim Gamaliya — Original Music Composer Zinoviy Papernyy — Screenplay Maya Soymonova — Writer Yevgeni Svidetelev — Production Design
Synopsis

The fire department is preparing for the New Year. Three activists of amateur performances decide to kidnap professional artists for a New Year's concert. A police captain investigates the kidnapping and listens to complaints from the “unkidnapped” artists.

Key Collaborators
Yuri Saakov Director Aleksandr Knyazhinsky Director of Photography Oskar Sandler Original Music Composer Vadim Gamaliya Original Music Composer Zinoviy Papernyy Screenplay Maya Soymonova Writer Yevgeni Svidetelev Production Design Ivan Tartynsky Production Design
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