Hello, Moscow!
About Hello, Moscow!
At a school talent show a boy sings about Moscow and plays an accordion. The school director's story is how that instrument, once owned by a cadre worker killed at a demonstration in 1905, passed through many hands before it reached the students.
Cast & crew
More about Hello, Moscow!
Sergei Yutkevich directed. Mikhail Volpin and Nikolai Erdman wrote it. The Russian title is Здравствуй, Москва! It was entered in the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. Wikidata also lists March 4, 1946.
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Mark Magidson photographed the musical.
Music
Anatoly Lepin wrote the score.
Preservation
A Commons transfer of the 1945 musical is online.
Notes
- Pavel Kadochnikov, Sergei Filippov, Ivan Lyubeznov, Boris Tenin, and Georgiy Vitsin are in the cast.
- Leonid Pirogov and Aleksandr Shirshov are on the Wikidata cast list.
Scenes
- The boy accompanies himself on the accordion at the school show.
- The director traces the instrument back to a worker killed in 1905.
