Crazies (film)
| Crazies | |
|---|---|
| Russian: Чокнутые | |
| Directed by | Alla Surikova |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Yuriy Kushneryov |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Valeriy Shuvalov |
| Edited by | Raisa Lisova |
| Music by | Gennady Gladkov |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Crazies (Russian: Чокнутые, romanized: Choknutye) is a 1991 Soviet tragicomedy film directed by Alla Surikova.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]The first half of the 19th century. Austrian engineer Otto von Gerstner (his prototype was a real person - Franz Anton von Gerstner) is traveling to Russia to implement a project for the construction of the first railway, which should connect Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Arriving in Russia, he gathers a team of like-minded people and goes to the goal, despite the problems that constantly stand in his way. The cause of these problems turn out to be the owners of the horse-drawn companies, who, in the fight against a dangerous competitor, as it seems to them, do not even disdain to hire a "coup specialist" in order to ruin von Gerstner and his enterprise. When, it seems, nothing can save the enterprise of the first Russian railway workers from failure, a being sent by higher powers comes to their aid — the guardian angel Masha…
Cast
[edit]- Ulrich Pleitgen as Otto Franz von Gerstner, engineer
- Nikolai Karachentsov as Rodion Ivanovich Kiryukhin, lieutenant
- Leonid Yarmolnik as Tikhon Zaitsev, employee of the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
- Olga Kabo as Masha
- Sergey Stepanchenko as Fyodor, who goes under the name Giacomo Pirandello
- Semyon Farada as Adam (Aron) Ziprowski, a Russian secret agent in Austria
- Natalya Gundareva as Countess Otreshkova
- Viktor Proskurin as Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, a specialist in coups
- Mikhail Boyarsky as Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
- Aleksei Zharkov as Alexander von Benckendorff
- Natalya Krachkovskaya as the agent's wife[4]
- Vsevolod Larionov as prince Rozanov-Razdorsky
- Aleksandr Shirvindt as George Stephenson
- Mikhail Derzhavin as Thaddeus Bulgarin
- Donovan Scott as a robber with a frog
- Vladislav Strzhelchik as general-cuckold (uncredited)