China Tea Set

China Tea Set
Russian: Китайскій сервизъ
Directed by	Vitaly Moskalenko
Written by	Vitaly Moskalenko
Produced by	Aleksandr Litvinov
Starring	Oleg Yankovsky Sergey Bezrukov Anna Samokhina Vladimir Menshov Sergey Nikonenko
Cinematography	Yuriy Nevskiy
Edited by	Svetlana Ivanova
Music by	Dmitri Smirnov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1999 (1999)
Running time	98 min.
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

China Tea Set[a] (Russian: Китайскій сервизъ, romanized: Kitayskiy serviz) is a 1999 Russian comedy film directed by Vitaly Moskalenko.[1][2][3]

Plot

The film takes place in 1913 on a ship leaving the Volga from Tsaritsyn to Nizhny Novgorod to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Suddenly it became known that con men plan to beat a rich merchant Frol Satanovsky at poker game....[4]

Cast

• Oleg Yankovsky as Count Stroganov
• Sergey Bezrukov as Kolya Sidikhin
• Anna Samokhina as Zinaida Voloshina (singing Evgenia Smolyaninova)
• Vladimir Menshov as Merchant Satanovsky
• Sergey Nikonenko as Arseni Myshko
• Bogdan Stupka as Lapsin
• Sergey Gabrielyan as Staff Captain Panteleimon Sumatokhin
• Irina Bezrukova as Countess (as Irina Livanova)
• Maksim Lagashkin as Waiter
• Andrei Davydov as General[5]
• Yuriy Dumchev as Efrem
• Evgeniya Dmitrieva as Elzhbeta Yanovna Kvyatkovskaya

Notes

1. Here "china tea set" means china, i.e. porcelain, tableware

References

1. "Показом фильма с участием Владимира Меньшова в кинотеатре «Вымпел» на Коминтерна отметят его 80-летний юбилей". Archived from the original on 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
2. Сериал «Бихэппи»: актеры и роли
3. В Костроме откроют музей кино
4. Китайскiй сервизъ // КиноПоиск
5. Chinese Tea Set (1999) Full Cast / Crew

External links

• China Tea Set at IMDb