Film
Promised Heaven
SU- Director
- Eldar Ryazanov
- Year
- 1991
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
Top cast
Olga Volkova
Katya Ivanova
Liya Akhedzhakova
Fima
Valentin Gaft
President
Oleg Basilashvili
President's friend
Leonid Bronevoy
'Banzai', the Colonel
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
President's ex-wife
Natalya Gundareva
Luska
Roman Kartsev
Solomon
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
Antisemit
Nina Ruslanova
Nina Agapova
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Fyodor Dunayevsky
Mikhail Filippov
Lyudmila Ivanova
Valeriy Nosik
Aleksandr Pashutin
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Directed by
Eldar Ryazanov
Written by
Eldar Ryazanov, Henrietta Altman
Produced by
Valentin Chernykh, Viktor Glukhov, Karlen Agadzhanov