• Source: Promised Heaven

      • Promised Heaven (Russian: Небеса обетованные, romanized: Nebesa obetovannye) is a 1991 Soviet film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film is a fantastical social tragicomedy.


      Plot


      The movie is set in against the dusk of the Soviet Union and associated changes in economical and social life. Near one of Moscow's train stations, on a landfill site, a group of vagrants lives. Due to a variety of reasons, once prosperous people have lost their jobs, homes, loved ones and began living at a landfill. Among them are: Anthemia (Fima), a talented artist; her brother Fyodor Yelistratov, who was repressed in the days of Stalinism; Solomon, a former engineer, who lost his job because his family emigrated to Israel; and former cook and housemaid Katya, who was beaten and kicked out of her house by her drunkard son and got amnesia. The head of those unfortunate people is "President" - a former party worker Dmitry Loginov, who like his friend Fyodor, was in Stalin's camps.
      One night the President tells his friends incredible news. He allegedly had contact with aliens, who promised to take all those people to their planet - to the place where happiness, joy and peace rule. At the right day and hour of the homeless are supposed to receive the signal from the "visitors from the sky": blue snow will fall.
      They prepare for a long trip, but authorities are going to liquidate the landfill site to build a condom factory with American investors. The President and other inhabitants of the landfill are trying to protect their home, but the authorities in their pursuit to liquidate the camp of homeless people are ready to do anything.
      At a winter night, "blue" snow begins to fall from the sky. The President and his "fellow citizens" go out to meet the good aliens, but they see heavily armed police squads and T-55 tanks approaching them that should raze vagrants' shacks to the ground.
      Desperate people load on the old steam locomotive, power it up and as it gains speed, it takes off the ground, to the Promised Heavens.


      Cast


      Liya Akhedzhakova as Anthemia Stepanovna (Phima), woman artist
      Olga Volkova as Katya Ivanova, former cook and housemaid
      Valentin Gaft as Dmitry Loginov, former party worker, leader of tramps (President)
      Leonid Bronevoy as Semyon Yefremovich Bakurin, Soviet Army colonel retired
      Oleg Basilashvili as Fedor Stepanovich Yelistratov, Phima's brother
      Svetlana Nemolyaeva as Aglaya Sviderskaya, former party worker, Loginov's former wife
      Sergei Artsibashev as Kirill, Katya Ivanova's eldest son / Kirill Grigorievich, large party official
      Mikhail Filippov as Vasya, Katya Ivanova's younger son / Vasily Ilyich Prokhorov, large party official
      Natalya Gundareva as Lyuska, Vasya's cohabitant
      Natalia Shchukina as Jeannа, student, Fedor Yelistratov's wife
      Vyacheslav Nevinny as Stepan, bum
      Roman Kartsev as Solomon, bum, Stepan's friend
      Alexander Pashutin as crazy motorman
      Nina Ruslanova as Jeanne's aunt, dressmaker from Tver
      Alexander Belyavsky as Oleg P Mirov, chairman of Regional Executive Committee
      Valery Nosik as bum
      Stanislav Sadalskiy as photographer at the wedding
      Lyudmila Ivanova as Claudia, cat lady
      Tatyana Kravchenko as matron of the old people's home
      Eldar Ryazanov as client in a cafe


      Awards


      Awards of magazine "Soviet Screen": "Best film of the year" and "Best actress of the year" (1991)
      Nika Award: "Best Movie", "Best Director", "Best Actor in a Supporting Role", "Best Music", "Best Sound", "Best Artistic Direction" (1992)
      Film Critics Award of the film festival "Constellation" (1992)
      Awards of International Film Festival in Madrid: Grand Prix - "Best fiction film" (1992)


      References




      External links


      Nebesa obetovannye at IMDb

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