A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears

Overview

A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 6, 1976

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Lenfilm

Cast

Sergei Filippov,Anatoly Alekseev,Valentina Kosobutskaya,Oleg Popov,Sergei Krupennikov,Yevgeniya Vetlova,Yevgeni Morgunov,Vladimir Trukhanov,Valentina Kovel,Pavel Pankovand 3 more

Director

Igor Usov

Writer

Arnold Vitol,Sergey Mikhalkov,Yuri Kholin,T. Kalinina

Producer

V. Kazuto,Viktor Borodin

Cinematography

Alexander Dibrivny

Music

Andrey Petrov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0153525