''The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone'' ( ''Tsirk sgorel, i klouny razbezhalis'') is a 1998 Russian drama film directed by
Vladimir Bortko
Vladimir Vladimirovich Bortko (russian: Владимир Владимирович Бортко; born 7 May 1946) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was a member of the State Duma between 2011 and 2021, and was aw ...
and starring Nikolai Karachentsov. It tells the story of a successful film director who is about to turn 50 and struggles with financiers, his insane mother and a mysterious woman who tells him how meaningless his life is.
Zinaida Sharko
Zinaida Maximovna Sharko (russian: Зинаида Максимовна Шарко; 14 May 1929 – 4 August 2016) was a Russian actress of theatre and film. She was a member of Bolshoi Drama Theatre, and was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR i ...
as Nikolai's Mother
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Nina Ruslanova
Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (russian: Нина Ивановна Русланова; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998).Maria Shukshina as Lena
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Tatyana Vasilyeva
Tatyana Grigoryevna Vasilyeva (russian: Татья́на Григо́рьевна Васи́льевa; born 28 February 1947) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, and TV presenter. She has appeared in more than seventy films since 1 ...
as Margarita
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Kseniya Kachalina
Kseniya Mikhailovna Kachalina (russian: Ксения Михайловна Качалина, born May 3, 1971) is a Russian actress.
Biography
Kseniya Mikhailovna Kachalina was born May 3, 1971. She studied two years at the acting department at t ...
Pyotr Zaychenko
Pyotr Petrovich Zaychenko (russian: Пётр Петрович Зайченко; 1 April 1943 – 21 March 2019) was a Soviet-born Russian film and theater actor.
as Igor
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Rudolf Furmanov
Rudolf Davydovich Furmanov ( rus, Рудольф Давыдович Фурманов; 22 October 1938 – 9 April 2021) was a Russian actor and stage director. He was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union on 22 October 1938, the son of a worker at ...
Zinaida Sharko
Zinaida Maximovna Sharko (russian: Зинаида Максимовна Шарко; 14 May 1929 – 4 August 2016) was a Russian actress of theatre and film. She was a member of Bolshoi Drama Theatre, and was awarded People's Artist of the RSFSR i ...
won the Best Actress award at the 1998
Open Russian Film Festival
Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invas ...
in
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...
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Vladimir Dashkevich
Vladimir Sergeevich Dashkevich (russian: Владимир Серге́евич Дашкевич) (born 20 January 1934) is a Russian composer, known mainly for his film music. Originally, he studied chemical technology at Moscow State University o ...