A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love (1990)

Name: A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love
Director: Sergei Solovyov
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 1990
Duration: 2 h 19 min
Rating: 6.391
Cast: Aleksandr Abdulov, Aleksandr Bashirov, Aleksandr Zbruev, Anna Drubich, Assan Kuiatte

Original Title: Чёрная роза — эмблема печали, красная роза — эмблема любви

Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance

6.4 (23 votes)

2h 19m

Overview

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.

Details

Director: Sergei Solovyov
Writer: Sergei Solovyov
Original Language: Russian
Budget: N/A

Cast

Aleksandr Abdulov Aleksandr Bashirov Aleksandr Zbruev Anna Drubich Assan Kuiatte Georgy Saakyan Ilya Ivanov Ludmila Savelyeva Mikhail Danilov Mikhail Rozanov Sergei Makarov Tatyana Drubich Valeri Burtashov Viktor Beshlyaga Yuriy Shumilo