Nachalo (1970)

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91 min - Romance | Comedy - 12 October 1970 (Soviet Union)

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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview:
	Inna Churikova	...	Pasha Stroganova / Joan of Arc
	Valentina Telichkina	...	Valya (as V. Telichkina)
	Tatyana Stepanova	...	Katya (as T. Stepanova)
	Leonid Kuravlyov	...	Arkadi (as L. Kuravlyov)
	Mikhail Kononov	...	Pavlik (as M. Kononov)
	Nina Skomorokhova	...	Zina (as N. Skomorokhova)
	Tatyana Bedova	...	Toma (as T. Bedova)
	Yuri Klepikov	...	Director (as Yu. Klepikov)
	Gennadi Beglov	...	Odinokov (as G. Beglov)
	Yuri Vizbor	...	Stepan Ivanovich (as Yu. Vizbor)
	Vyacheslav Vasilyev	...	Stepan Vitalyevich (as V. Vasilyev)
	Yevgeni Lebedev	...	Cauchon (as Ye. Lebedev)
	Vsevolod Sobolev	...	Massieu (as V. Sobolev)
	Gerasim Zhukovsky	...	Boriska (as Gera Zhukovsky)

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A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha (Churikova) is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn between her luck and her love to Arkadi (Kuravlev) who is a married man. Written by Steve Shelokhonov

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