''Once in the Summer'' (Russian: ''Odnazhdy letom'') is a 1936 Soviet

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directed by Khanan Shmain and starring

Igor Ilyinsky Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky (russian: И́горь Влади́мирович Ильи́нский; 24 July 1901 – 13 January 1987) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director and comedian. Hero of Socialist Labour (1974) and People ...

Leonid Kmit Leonid Aleksandrovich Kmit (born Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kmita; russian: Алексей Александрович Кмита́; 9 March 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet and Russian actor. In 1931 he graduated from Saint Petersburg State Thea ...

and

Ivan Koval-Samborsky Ivan Koval-Samborsky ( Ukrainian: Іван Коваль-Самборський; 16 September 1893 – 10 January 1962) was a Ukrainian stage and film actor. After establishing himself in the Soviet film industry in the 1920s, he briefly went to wor ...

.Rollberg p.288

Cast

* Igor Ilyinsky as Teleskop / professor Sen-Verbuda *

as Zhora *

* B. Movchan as Kotya * A. Savitskaya *

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References

Bibliography

* Rollberg, Peter. ''Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1936 films Soviet comedy films 1936 comedy films 1930s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films {{1930s-USSR-film-stub