A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love

Overview

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 15, 1990

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm,Krug

Cast

Tatyana Drubich,Aleksandr Abdulov,Aleksandr Zbruev,Ludmila Savelyeva,Aleksandr Bashirov,Mikhail Danilov,Yuriy Shumilo,Ilya Ivanov,Mikhail Rozanov,Assan Kuiatteand 7 more

Director

Sergey Solovyov

Writer

Sergey Solovyov,Avdotya Smirnova

Cinematography

Yury Klimenko

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0097062