Musical Story
About Musical Story
A cab driver who wants to sing spends his nights with an amateur opera company and ignores the dispatcher who loves him. The songs come from the opera house, not from a new score written for the cab stand.
Cast & crew
More about Musical Story
Aleksandr Ivanovsky and Gerbert Rappaport directed it. Yevgeny Petrov wrote it. Sergei Lemeshev plays the driver. Arkadi Koltsaty photographed it. Lenfilm released it on 24 October 1940. It runs 84 minutes. The score uses music from Bizet's Carmen and from Tchaikovsky. The Russian title is Музыкальная история.
Themes
Look
Arkadi Koltsaty photographed the cab stand and the amateur opera.
Music
The film sings Bizet's Carmen and Tchaikovsky, among other operas. Five operas are used in all.
Notes
- Lemeshev, an opera tenor, plays the cabbie.
- Petrov, co-author of Ilf and Petrov, wrote the script.
- The dispatcher is the sweetheart he neglects.
Scenes
- He rehearses at night and leaves the dispatcher at the garage.
- Opera numbers interrupt the love story.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1940. Музыкальная история.webm)
