History Film / Stilyagi

* HeroesWantRedheads: Fred marries a red-haired American girl.

* SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl: Mel believes Katya too can become a stilyaga.

* JerkAss: Polly, Fred and their friends act downright mean towards Mel at first, but become much nicer when he [[WinTheCrowd wins the crowd]].

* WinTheCrowd: InUniverse, Mel has to do it to win the "hipsters'" favour.

Стиляги (Stilyagi) is a 2008 {{Musical}} {{Dramedy}} by Valery Todorovsky set in 1955-1956. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. UsefulNotes/JosefStalin has been dead for two years, but Nikita Khrushchev has not yet denounced the CultOfPersonality, and the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] has just begun to be liberalized. Young people are experimenting with RockAndRoll, jazz and other trademarks of American pop culture. In the secret rock clubs and cocktail lounges, they find freedom from Soviet life. But the Komsomol (Communist Youth League), acting in the role of CulturePolice, is constantly hunting these youth, who are called "stilyagi," a rude term roughly translating as "hipsters" or "mods."

* TheFifties: A rather balanced view of the Fifties in Soviet Russia, as a time of both post-war depression, political pressure and paranoia - and a longing for a bright abd flashy life.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Mel.

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Стиляги (Stilyagi) is a 2008 {{Musical}} {{Dramedy}} by Valery Todorovsky set in 1955-1956. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. UsefulNotes/JosefStalin has been dead for two years, but Nikita Khrushchev has not yet denounced the CultOfPersonality, and the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] has just begun to be liberalized. Young people are experimenting with RockAndRoll, jazz and other trademarks of American pop culture. In the secret rock clubs and cocktail lounges, they find freedom from Soviet life. But the Komsomol (Communist Youth League), acting in the role of CulturePolice, is constantly hunting these youth, who are called "stilyagi," a rude term roughly translating as "hipsters" or "mods."

%%* BowtiesAreCool: Drin.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Subverted. Mel's father is a veteran of the UsefulNotes/GreatPatrioticWar who definitely went through a lot, but keeps his cheerful demeanor.

* DadTheVeteran: Mel's father, a veteran of the UsefulNotes/GreatPatrioticWar.

Стиляги (Stilyagi) is a 2008 {{Musical}} {{Dramedy}} by Valery Todorovsky set in 1955-1956. It was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009. UsefulNotes/JosefStalin has been dead for two years, but Nikita Khrushchev has not yet denounced the CultOfPersonality, and the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] has just begun to be liberalized. Young people are experimenting with RockAndRoll, jazz, Mod style, and other trademarks of American pop culture. In the secret rock clubs and cocktail lounges, they find freedom from Soviet life. But the Komsomol (Communist Youth League), acting in the role of CulturePolice, is constantly hunting these youth, who are called "stilyagi," a rude term roughly translating as "hipsters" or "mods."

Стиляги (Stilyagi) is a 2008 {{Musical}} {{Dramedy}} by Valery Todorovsky set in 1955-1956. UsefulNotes/JosefStalin has been dead for two years, but Nikita Khrushchev has not yet denounced the CultOfPersonality, and the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] has just begun to be liberalized. Young people are experimenting with RockAndRoll, jazz, Mod style, and other trademarks of American pop culture. In the secret rock clubs and cocktail lounges, they find freedom from Soviet life. But the Komsomol (Communist Youth League), acting in the role of CulturePolice, is constantly hunting these youth, who are called "stilyagi," a rude term roughly translating as "hipsters" or "mods."

%%* TheFifties

%%* NerdGlasses: Bob.

* ShoutOut: The Komsomol meeting is composed like the film of the Music/PinkFloyd RockOpera ''Music/TheWall''.

Стиляги (Stilyagi) is a 2008 {{Musical}} {{Dramedy}} by Valery Todorovsky set in 1955-1956. IosifStalin has been dead for two years, but Nikita Khrushchev has not yet denounced the CultOfPersonality, and the [[SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] has just begun to be liberalized. Young people are experimenting with RockAndRoll, jazz, Mod style, and other trademarks of American pop culture. In the secret rock clubs and cocktail lounges, they find freedom from Soviet life. But the Komsomol (Communist Youth League), acting in the role of CulturePolice, is constantly hunting these youth, who are called "stilyagi," a rude term roughly translating as "hipsters" or "mods."

Mel gets a saxophone, becoming a SexySaxMan under the guidance of an apparition of CharlieParker. He and Polly deepen their relationship, and they have sex. But not everything goes well. Mel's old friends abandon him, and his neighbors tease him for being a stilyaga. Katya, who secretly likes Mel, feels conflicted. Mel goes to Katya's house and teaches her to express herself through dance and fashion. But when Katya kisses Mel, he confesses he is in love with Polly, and Katya throws him out of her house. Persuaded by his father Brusnitsyn, who is a powerful diplomat, Fred goes to America for an internship so that he himself can become a diplomat. As a final gesture, though, Brusnitsyn hosts a party in his house for the stilyagi, and reveals that he himself was a rebel in his youth.

* Summertime (инструментал, GeorgeGershwin), исполняет CharlieParker (запись), Игорь Чернов

* Скованные одной цепью (Вячеслав Бутусов и группа NautilusPompilius, оригинальный текст — Илья Кормильцев), исполняет Евгения Брик

* Music/ElvisPresley: Fred looks and acts just like him.

* HitlerCam: Used on [[http://www.blog.ngorbachov.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/katya.jpg Katya]] when she expels Mel from the Komsomol.

* NippleAndDimed: Averted.

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* {{Adorkable}}: Mel.
* AppropriatedAppellation: The term "stilyagi."
* BettyAndVeronica: Katya is Betty, and Polly is Veronica.
* BowtiesAreCool: Drin.
* ChocolateBaby: John.
* ComingOfAgeStory
* CoolCar: Fred's convertible.
* CoolOldGuy: Mel's and Fred's fathers.
* CrowdSong: Several.
* CulturePolice: The Komsomol.

* DawsonCasting
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The Komsomol.

* TheFifties

* JewishAndNerdy: Bob.

* MoralGuardians: Katya and the Komsomol.
* TheMusical
* MusicalisInterruptus
* NerdGlasses: Bob.
* NothingButHits

* PutOnABus: Fred (though TheBusCameBack) and Betsy.

* RealPersonCameo: Music/CharlieParker.
* RockAndRoll

* SexAsRiteOfPassage.
* SexySaxMan: Mel.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Katya.

* VillainSong: "Скованные одной цепью" ("[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7IGVCR6bo4 Chained Together]]") by NautilusPompilius is the Komsomol song.

* DadTheVeteran: Mel's father, a veteran of the GreatPatrioticWar.

One evening, Komsomol are patrolling a park and find a secret dance party. They break up the party, but one of the girls, Polly (Oksana Akinshina), escapes. The Komsomol leader Katya (Eugenia Brik) orders her friend Mels (Anton Shagin) to chase Polly. He finds her, but falls in love with her, and she escapes the Komsomol punishment. Mels is captivated, and tries to find Polly. One day, he finds her on the street with her other stilyagi friends, such as Fred, Bob, Drin, Betsy, Ellie, Sophie, and Lizzie. All of them dress in colorful clothes, wear makeup, sculpt their hair in wild styles, call each other by English names, and have secret rock parties. Mels decides to join the stilyagi, and learns dancing from Bob. He manages to get rock songs, makes a colorful suit, and begins to go out with Polly, gradually having fun and becoming his own man. He even takes on the English name Mel.

* Восьмиклассница (Music/ViktorTsoi), performed by Andrei Birin and OksanaAkinshina

* Восьмиклассница (ViktorTsoi), performed by Andrei Birin and OksanaAkinshina