''The Circus Princess'' (russian: Принцесса цирка, Printsessa tsirka) is 1982 Soviet musical

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, a screen version of the operetta of the same name (1926) by

Emmerich Kálmán Emmerich Kálmán ( hu, Kálmán Imre; 24 October 1882 – 30 October 1953) was a Hungarian composer of operettas and a prominent figure in the development of Viennese operetta in the 20th century. Among his most popular works are ''Die Csárd� ...

Plot

A circus comes to the city, the main star of which is an air gymnast, performing dizzying stunts - the mysterious Mr. X. He always hides his face under the mask. The audience, especially the women, are burning up with curiosity, but Mr. X is relentless and continues to carefully hide his face. At the same time, the city's men surround the beautiful Countess Palinskaya who dream of becoming her husband. But the proud beauty rejects all of them, and then the prince, one of the "failed suitors", decides to play a cruel joke on her. The prince makes an arrangement with Mr. X that he should take off his mask, present himself as a distinguished nobleman and begin to flirt with Palinskaya. Between the "young nobleman" and the countess a romance arises, and soon a lavish wedding organized by the prince is staged right on the circus arena. But in the midst of the celebration a portrait of Mr. X is brought, the prince tears off the mask from the picture, and everyone sees that the groom is in fact Mr. X! The jubilant prince gloatingly tells to Palinskaya that she became the wife of a miserable circus performer, but then Mr. X unexpectedly intervenes. He begins to tell his true story and then the situation changes instantly... Simultaneously with Mr. X's romantic story, an equally romantic love story is unfolding between the young student Tony and the young circus gymnast Marie. The young man wants to marry his lover, but the harsh Madame Caroline, Tony's mother and the proprietress of the Hotel "Green Parrot", are absolutely against it. And only the help of the resourceful servant Pelikan can help the lovers to find happiness ...

Cast

* Igor Keblušek as ''Mr. X'' (voice by Stanislav Zakharov, vocal by Vladimir Malchenko) * Natalya Belokhvostikova as '' Countess Palinskaya'' (vocal by Galina Kovaleva) * Nikolay Trofimov as ''Duke'' (vocal by

Oleg Anofriyev Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev (sometimes spelled Anofriev, russian: link=no, Олег Андреевич Анофриев; 20 July 193028 March 2018), PAR, was a Soviet and Russian theatreРусский драматический театр: Энци ...

) * Yuri Moroz as ''Tony'' (vocal by

) * Yelena Shanina as ''Mary'' (vocal by

Larisa Dolina Larisa Aleksandrovna Dolina (russian: link=no, Лариса Александровна Долина, , née Kudelman, Кудельман, formerly Mionchinskaya, Миончинская; born 10 September 1955) is an Azerbaijani-born prominent Rus ...

) *

Lyudmila Kasatkina Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina (russian: Людмила Ивановна Касаткина; 15 May 192522 February 2012) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actress who starred in a string of war-related films directed by her husband Sergey Kol ...

as ''Madame Caroline, Tony's mother'' *

Vladimir Basov Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (russian: link=no, Владимир Павлович Басов; 28 July 192317 September 1987) was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1983). Biography Vladimir Basov was ...

as ''Pelikan, servant'' * Alexander Schirvindt as ''Firelli, director of the circus'' * Emmanuil Geller as ''kapellmeister'' *

Alexander Pyatkov Alexander Alexandrovich Pyatkov (russian: Александр Александрович Пятков; born July 31, 1950, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. In 2006 he was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia. Selecte ...

as ''hussar''

References

External links

* 1982 television films 1982 films Soviet musical comedy films 1980s Russian-language films Films based on operettas Remakes of German films 1980s musical comedy films {{musical-comedy-film-stub