Film

We're from Jazz

6.819831h 29mMusic Comedy

Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Year: 1983

A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.

Top cast

Igor Sklyar

Kostya Ivanov

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy

Stepan Grushko

Nikolai Averyushkin

Zhura Ryabov

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Ivan Bavurin

Elena Tsyplakova

Katya Bobrova

Evgeniy Evstigneev

'Papa'

Pyotr Merkuryev

Zhora

Boryslav Brondukov

Kolbashev

Leonid Kuravlyov

Samsonov

Yuri Vasilyev

Orlov

Anatoli Kroll

Musician (uncredited)

Larisa Dolina

Clementine

Nikolay Kochegarov

Samsonov's receptionist

Yuri Gusev

gangster

Vadim Aleksandrov

gray-haired gangster

Vitaliy Bobrov

real Kolbasyev

Boris Gitin

comission member

Grigoriy Malikov

examiner

Directed by

Karen Shakhnazarov

Written by

Karen Shakhnazarov, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy