Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev
movie

Released July 10, 2024
Overview
Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult to accept. The world has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet he tries to hold on to what once was. Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence gives way for more historical leaders that Yasha idolises to arrive. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito and Erich Honecker, and even the African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa all make an appearance! When Yasha takes an oath of loyalty to them, this creates trouble for his family.
Cast

Mais Sarkisyan
as
Yasha

Maksim Vitorgan
as
Leonid Brezhnev
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Ruzanna Khachatryan
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Lilit Salnazaryan
as
Valya
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Arsen Chachoyan

Avital Lvova
as
Elena Ceausescu

Nazir Zhukov

Samad Mansurov
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Georgy Engelgard
as
Fidel Castro

Ksenia Kopylova
as
Nastya

Irina Abrosimova
as
Ludmila Ivanovna
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Viktor Vinogradov
as
Rostropovich, Musician
Crew
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Edgar Baghdasaryan
as
Director
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Edgar Baghdasaryan
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Screenplay

Suren Tadevosyan
as
Director of Photography
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Karine Simonyan
as
Producer
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Artyom Baghdasaryan
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Production Design
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Tigran Araqelyan
as
Production Design
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Andranik Berberyan
as
Original Music Composer
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Tigran Kuzikyan
as
Sound Designer
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Tigran Kuzikyan
as
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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Narek Khachaturyan
as
Editor
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Alexandr Baghdasaryan
as
Editor
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Jonas Zagorskas
as
Colorist