Promised Heaven (1991)
Nebesa obetovannye
125 min
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
- Release date
- August 28, 1991
- Country of origin
- Russia
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Cast
- Olga Volkova as Katya Ivanova
- Liya Akhedzhakova as Fima
- Valentin Gaft as President
- Oleg Basilashvili as President's friend
- Leonid Bronevoy as 'Banzai', the Colonel
- Svetlana Nemolyaeva as President's ex-wife
- Natalya Gundareva as Luska
- Roman Kartsev as Solomon
- Vyacheslav Nevinnyy as Antisemit
- Nina Ruslanova
- Nina Agapova
- Aleksandr Belyavskiy
- Fyodor Dunayevsky
- Mikhail Filippov
- Lyudmila Ivanova
- Valeriy Nosik
- Aleksandr Pashutin
- Aleksandr Pyatkov
- Stanislav Sadalskiy
- Natalya Shchukina
- Mariya Vinogradova
- Sergey Artsibashev
- Tatyana Gavrilova
- Mikhail Bocharov
- Tatyana Kravchenko
Crew
- Eldar Ryazanov · Director
- Henrietta Altman · Writer
- Eldar Ryazanov · Writer
- Valentin Chernykh · Producer
- Viktor Glukhov · Producer
- Andrey Petrov · Composer
- Leonid Kalashnikov · Cinematographer
- Valeriya Belova · Editor
- Aleksandr Borisov · Production designer
- Sergei Ivanov · Production designer