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Cloud Heaven

Cloud Heaven

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Cloud Heaven

1990

1h 16m

6.6(29 votes)

Drama

Overview

In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast.

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Mosfilm

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Andrey Zhigalov

Andrey Zhigalov

Kostya

Sergey Batalov

Sergey Batalov

Fedya

Irina Rozanova

Irina Rozanova

Valya

Alla Kliouka

Alla Kliouka

Natalya

Anna Ovsyannikova

Anna Ovsyannikova

Tatyana Ivanovna

Vladimir Tolokonnikov

Vladimir Tolokonnikov

Filomeev

Lev Borisov

Lev Borisov

Filipp Makarovich

Yuri Kolobkov

Yuri Kolobkov

Vasilich

Zinaida Vorkul

Zinaida Vorkul

Pozhilaya sosedka

M. Nikitskaya

Pozhilaya sosedka

Creative team

Directed by: Nikolay Dostal
Written by: Georgi Nikolayev

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