A very sick girl asks her father to get her a live elephant. Based on the early stories by Alexander Kuprin.
Cast
Oleg Basilashvili
Ilya Mitrofanovich, Sasha's father
Valeriy Zolotukhin
Kostya
Tatyana Pelttser
governess
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Nika, Shasha's aunt
Zinoviy Gerdt
Franz Ivanovich, Circus director
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Akhmet Suleymanov, trainer
Sergei Filippov
ringmaster
Georgiy Shtil
Nikita Kostolomov, wrestler
Olga Volkova
Unknown
Svetlana Karpinskaya
housemaid
Sergei Parshin
Raul de Bragelon, wrestler
Konstantin Adashevsky
Doctor
Mark Nikelberg
Unknown
Crew
O. Ardashnikova
First Assistant Director Trainee
T. Dmitrieva
First Assistant Director Trainee
Nadezhda Kosheverova
Director
Yuli Dunsky
Writer
Valeri Frid
Writer
Aleksandr Bessmertniy
Script Editor
Aleksandr Kuprin
Short Story
Zinaida Sheineman
Editor
Elena Karelina
Editor
Eduard Rozovsky
Director of Photography
I. Yemelyanova
Color Grading
E. Belskaya
First Assistant Director
V. Apananskiy
Assistant Director
N. Okuntsova
Assistant Director
R. Volman
Executive Producer
Marina Azizyan
Production Design
Sergey Dvortsov
Camera Operator
T. Plyusnina
Assistant Camera
S. Ivanov
Assistant Camera
A. Toropov
Assistant Camera
Tamara Seferyan
Assistant Costume Designer
Irina Kaverzina
Costume Design
Boris Soloviev
Makeup Designer
Sergey Snezhkin
Second Unit First Assistant Director
B. Livshits
Sound Director
Semyon Shumyacher
Sound Director
Leonid Izakov
Sound Assistant
V. Naumov
Lighting Artist
N. Krivosheyev
VFX Artist
Georgiy Senotov
VFX Director of Photography
Mieczysław Weinberg
Original Music Composer
Eduard Orman
Set Decoration
Yuriy Rotin
Set Decoration
A. Zager
Still Photographer
A. Sonin
Script Consultant
V. Lopukhin
Script Consultant
Anatoliy Kornilov
Animal Wrangler
Margarita Skripova-Yasinskaya
Property Master
Pavel Bubelnikov
Conductor
G. Krutius
Administration
T. Loginova
Administration
N. Karpova
Administration
V. Samoylov
Administration
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