Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach
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| Directed by | Leonid Gaidai |
| Written by | Arkady Inin Leonid Gaidai Yuri Volovich |
| Starring | Dmitry Kharatyan Kelly McGrill Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Mamuka Kikaleishvili Leonid Kuravlyov Spartak Mishulin |
| Music by | Aleksandr Zatsepin Viktor Babushkin |
| Cinematography | Vadim Alisov |
| Distributed by | Mosfilm |
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Release dates
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1992 |
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Running time
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97 min. |
| Country | Russia United States |
| Language | Russian / English |
Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach (Russian: На Дерибасовской хорошая погода, или На Брайтон-Бич опять идут дожди) is a 1992 joint Russian-American production comedy film directed by Leonid Gaidai. Its title used in the plot as a password for secret agents, and refers to Deribasovskaya Street and Brighton Beach.
Plot
The plot unfolds during the last years of the Soviet Union. The Cold War is over and the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the Soviet Union must meet for high-level diplomatic talks. However, the meeting is put at risk because of the extent of the criminal activities perpetuated by the Russian Mafia in the United States. A Mafioso named Rabinovich is even able to listen in on the phone lines between Washington and Moscow using a secret wiretap. Fedor Sokolov, a KGB agent and Mary Star, a CIA agent, must work together to take down the head of the Russian Mafia, nicknamed the "Artist" who appears in the guises of Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Hitler, Peter the Great, Saddam Hussein, and Othello over the course of this screwball comedy.
Cast
- Dmitry Kharatyan as Fyodor Sokolov
- Kelly McGrill as Mary Star
- Andrey Myagkov as Artist
- Mikhail Kokshenov as Kravchuk
- Yuri Volyntsev as Styopa
- Emmanuil Vitorgan as Jack
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Katz
- Mamuka Kikaleishvili as Tsuladze
- Yevgeni Vesnik as Monya
- Natalya Krachkovskaya as Monya's Wife
- Leonid Kuravlyov as Mikhail Gorbachev
- Vladimir Sedov as George H. W. Bush
- Spartak Mishulin as Eunuch
- Nikolai Parfyonov as colonel Petrenko
- Serafim Strelkov as Kamikazev
External links
- Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach at AllMovie
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Weather Is Good on Deribasovskaya, It Rains Again on Brighton Beach at IMDb
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