

The Magician
1968-03-18 · 79 min · ★ 5.3
In a small provincial town, the magician Viktor Mikhailovich Kukushkin performed in a student dormitory. His tricks were not very complicated and did not make a great impression on the audience. But this evening was the beginning of friendship between the magician and the students.
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- Directors
- Pyotr Todorovskiy
- Production companies
- Mosfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Zinoviy GerdtViktor Mikhaylovich Kukushkin
Alla LarionovaElena Ivanovna
Evgeni LeonovStepan Nikolaevich Rossomakhin
Leonid DyachkovPavel
Vladimir BasovAsrtist
Olga GobzevaLilya Kukushkina
Eduard AbertDima
Lyudmila Gladunko
Svetlana KharitonovaSasha
Aleksei Mironov
Vladimir Smirnov
Valentina TitovaDasha
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