Luna Park (Film)

  • Oleg Borisov - Naum Cheifiz
  • Andrei Gutin - Andrei
  • Natalia Egorova - Alyona
  • Nonna Mordjukowa - Aunt
  • Mikhail Golubowitsch - deaf-mute
  • Alexander Feklistow - Boris Ivanovich
  • Tatjana Lebedkowa - prostitutes
  • Alexander Savin - Sanjok

Luna Park (AKA Russian Луна - парк ) is a Franco- Russian film from the year 1992.

It was first shown on September 9, 1992 at the Film Festival of Cannes in France and four days later at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada. In Germany the film was dubbed in German and published on 11 February 1993. On January 21, 1994, he was released in the U.S. at New York film.

Action

The film is set in Russia before the turn and records the story of Andrei, an anti-Semitic skinhead, who leads the radical transition cleansers. Its members rushing dissenting: Biker, Jews, gays, long- haired. After a slump in an archive Andrei finds out that his father was the well-known Jewish musicians and artists Naum life is. At first shocked by this information, Andrei begins to deal with his roots. After several encounters in which there is strife, slowly a normal relationship between father and son begins to build. But Andrei must soon find that catches up with him his own anti-Semitic past. When his friends find out that he is Jew, he suddenly becomes the hunted.

Awards

The composer Isaak Schwarz won the Nika Film Prize of the Russian film art academy for film music.

Comments

There are three versions of this film:

  • The Russian original version without subtitles; previously released as DVD, good picture quality
  • The French version in OT, with embedded English subtitles; so far only in poor image quality than VHS
  • A German dubbed version, without subtitles; only on VHS and with the same quality as the French version
  • The U.S. VHS version that was released in 1994 at New York film, similar to the French version of VHS.
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