Movielogr
Au-u! (1976)
Directed by Gerald Bezhanov, Yuriy Gorkovenko, Viktor Kryuchkov
Overview
The film comprises three cinematic novellas: (1) “And They Arrived at the Peasant’s Hut… or the Adventures of Writer Senya in Search of the Hidden Word,” in which writer Senya draws inspiration for his rural novels from his housekeeper Yermolayevna’s tales; (2) “The Song, or How the Great Louarsab Organized a Choir,” where a city visitor attempts to form a choir of centenarian elders in a Georgian mountain village; (3) “What Is Our Life?! or What Is Our Life?!”—during a musical reenactment of pre-Revolutionary France, a drunken actor’s tardiness forces King Louis XIV (also the theater committee chairman) and the cast to improvise the play’s ending.
Actors
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy | Nadezhda Rumyantseva | Georgiy Vitsin | Natalya Krachkovskaya | Valentina Vladimirova | Mariya Skvortsova | Vladimir Pitsek | Valentin Bryleev | Nodar Piranishvili | Dodo Abashidze | Bukhuti Zakariadze | Sesika Kuprashvili | Shalva Kherkheulidze | Yuri Tsanava | Valodia Tsuladze | Vakhtang Ninua | Dimitri Omiadze | Akaki Doborjginidze | Davit Okrostsvaridze | Olia Janiashvili | Guram Nikolaishvili | Leonid Kuravlyov | Nikolai Parfyonov | Vladimir Basov | Valentina Titova | Irina Muravyova | Savely Kramarov | Sergei Filippov | Spartak Mishulin | Gurgen Tonunts | Lyudmila Shagalova | Georgi Georgiu | Emmanuil Geller | Aleksandra Popova | Иван Косых | German Kachin | Lyudmila Karaush | Aleksandr Vigdorov | Kuanysh Simbin | Oleg Panov | Anatoly Vedyonkin | Aleksei Pankin | Mikhail Selyutin | Vladimir Tkalich | Vladimir Vinokur | Svetlana Konovalova | Zoya Isayeva