Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Natan Eidelman | ... | Golos ot avtora (voice) |
Anatoly Slivnikov | ... | Ambal | |
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German Shorr | ... | Chir |
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Ilya Ivanov | ... | Shar |
Aleksandr Bashirov | ... | Mayor | |
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Viktor Tsoy | ... | Viktor Tsoy |
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Sergei Ryzhenko | ... | Sergey - skripka |
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Timur Novikov | ... | Timur - klavishnye |
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Andrei Krisanov | ... | Andrey - bas-gitara |
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Georgi Guryanov | ... | Gustav - udarnye (as Gustav Guryanov) |
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Kirill Kozakov | ... | Platon Zubov (as Kirill Kazakov) |
Aleksandr Domogarov | ... | Aleksandr I | |
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Dmitriy Dolinin | ... | Pavel I |
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Andrei Khalyavin | ... | Boroda - sotrudnik KGB |
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Irena Kuksenaite | ... | Sputnitsa Borody |
ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot. Written by Andrew Obin <aobin@lehman.com>
The face of Russia as it was in the 80's. The image of the young generation through the face of gloomy regime. Love story of 2 young people is stuck between the old norms of Soviet union and the new rising power of organized mafia, two ingredients which will affect the collapse of the 70 years socialist power. The young generation demand changes, and immediately but it's being suffocated by both sides of the old order, and the movie ends with legendary Viktor Tsoi's song "Changes" which became an anthem after Tsoi's tragic death in a car accident. A Parallel story in the movie is the murder of Russia's emperor on 12th March of 1801 which is probably a metaphor of constant corruption in Russia.