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Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev

7.0 100 mins Drama   Comedy   2024
Edgar Baghdasaryan Film Production   Silvi Movies   Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia   National Cinema Centre of Armenia  
Director(s): Edgar Baghdasaryan

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.

Casts of Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev

Mais Sarkisyan

as Yasha

Maksim Vitorgan

as Leonid Brezhnev

Avital Lvova

as Elena Ceausescu

Georgy Engelgard

as Fidel Castro

Ksenia Kopylova

as Nastya

Irina Abrosimova

as Ludmila Ivanovna

Viktor Vinogradov

as Rostropovich, Musician

Igor Emelin

as Yuri Andropov

Sergey Ershov

as Josip Broz Tito

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