Line #18 Film/CarnivalNight


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3	''Carnival Night'' (Карнавальная ночь) is a Soviet musical comedy from 1956. It was the first non-documentary feature film directed by Creator/EldarRyazanov and starred Lyudmila Gurchenko, Igor Ilynsky, and Yuri Belov.
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5	A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Culture House of Culture]] is planning for their big New Year's celebration, but the newly installed director, Serafim Ivanovich Ogurtsov (Ilynsky), has NoSenseOfHumor and insists on it being an event dedicated to edification and moral improvement--which, everyone else realizes, will bore the attendees to tears. It is up to the young employees, led by bubbly Lena (Gurchenko) and her shy admirer Grisha (Belov) to make sure that the party remains a night of fun.
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7	Created during the Krushchev Thaw, this film poking fun of a stuffy authority figure became massively popular, launching the career of 21-year-old Gurchenko and establishing Ryzanov as the Soviet Union's foremost director of gentle yet resonant satires of Soviet life.
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12	* CanNotSpitItOut: Grisha is so bashful that he tries to declare his love for Lena via homemade record. When she asks him to declare his feelings in person, though, he stumbles.
13	* DiegeticMusical: All of the musical numbers exist in the context of being performed for the House of Culture's New Year's celebration.
14	* ElevatorFailure: Deliberately engineered by Grisha, who opens a switch and traps Ogurtsov in an elevator.
15	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first shot of the movie has Lena sliding down a slide, then popping up and giggling about how everyone's going to love going down the slide for New Year's. She's established immediately as cheerful and fun.
16	* FeetFirstIntroduction: The first we see of Grisha is his feet on the stairs as Lena walks by. He's the male romantic lead.
17	* HumiliationConga: For Comrade Ogurtsov, and then some. Most of the partygoers presume he's in on the jokes. He very much isn't.
18	* IconicOutfit: Gurchenko's dress in the final number--long, black, tiny-waisted, and accessorized with a white muff--would become her signature.
19	* IsThisThingStillOn: Ogurtsov summons his secretary over the loudspeaker to take his dictated letter to the authorities, about how all the party people ignored him and made him out to be a fool. He doesn't realize that the mic is still on. His indignant speech is broadcast to the entire crowd, provoking gales of laughter.
20	* LovelyAssistant: Naturally the StageMagician has two hot ladies in BedlahBabe outfits helping him out.
21	* MeaningfulName: Ogurtsov. "Ogurets" means cucumber--aka., the man is as sour as a pickle.
22	* MistakenForAnImposter: The partygoers think that Ogurtsov is somebody else dressed up in a very convincing Ogurtsov mask. They love it!
23	* TheMusicalMusical: The "Carnival Night" celebration is an excuse to have a lot of songs and musical numbers.
24	* NewYearHasCome: The staff of a House of Culture, on New Years's Eve, preparing a celebration.
25	* PaperThinDisguise: Grisha colors his hair gray and wears a beard to pass himself off as a member of the veterans' home orchestra that Ogurtsov wants to hire.
26	* ShowWithinAShow: The New Year's carnival itself, despite Ogurtsov's best efforts to turn it into a snoozefest.
27	* StageMagician: A stage magician first helps the good guys by stealing Ogurtsov's speech out of his pocket, then performs an act.
28	* TheStinger: After the "[[TheEnd конец]]" card is shown, Ogurtsov appears in TheStinger, BreakingTheFourthWall to tell the audience directly that he disclaims any responsibility for what happened.

Context Film / CarnivalNight