The Happy Canary

The Happy Canary
Directed by	Lev Kuleshov
Written by	Boris Gusman Anatoli Marienhof
Cinematography	Boris Frantsisson Pyotr Yermolov
Edited by	Lev Kuleshov
Production company	Mezhrabpomfilm
Release date	5 March 1929 (1929-03-05)
Running time	73 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent Russian intertitles

The Happy Canary or The Gay Canary (Russian: Весёлая канарейка, romanized: Vesyolaya kanareyka) is a 1929 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Galina Kravchenko, Andrey Fayt and Ada Vojtsik.[1]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Sergei Kozlovsky.

Plot

Actress Brio working in a cafe "The Happy Canary", does not suspect that her new acquaintances Brianski and Lugovec are Communists sent by an underground committee to fight the enemy's counter-intelligence ...

Cast

• Galina Kravchenko as Brio
• Andrey Fayt as Lugovec
• Ada Vojtsik as Lugovec' wife
• Sergey Komarov as Brianski
• Yuri Vasilchikov as Assistant Chief Secret Service
• Mikhail Doronin as Chief Secret Service
• Vladimir Kochetov as French communist soldier
• Vsevolod Pudovkin as Illusionist
• Aleksandr Chistyakov as Workman
• N. Kopysov as Workman
• Aleksandr Zhutaev as Workman

Reception

Henri Barbusse described Gay Canary as "an amusing picture of the fever of revels and intrigues which took possession of Odessa during the foreign occupation ten years ago".[2]

References

1. Christie & Taylor p.429
2. Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 270.

Bibliography

• Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links

• The Happy Canary at IMDb