A Funny Dream, or Laughter and Tears (1976)
A student and chess lover Andrey Popov, while getting sick the night before a chess game with a chess world champion Karpov, falls asleep and is having a dream. In this dream, he finds himself in a kingdom ruled by chess figures and playing cards. Chess figures (who are in power) are in a state of sadness due to a misterious disease that struck their young prince. While Andrey attempts to help them, the cards are preparing a coup...
- Released
- 1976-06-06
- Genres
- Family, Fantasy, Adventure
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Igor Usov
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 4 votes
Cast
- Sergei Krupennikov as Andrey Popov
- Yuliya Shulepova as Prince / Princess
- Sergei Filippov as Chess King
- Vladimir Trukhanov as Pattison
- Georgiy Vitsin as Krivello / Jack of Spades
- Valentina Kosobutskaya as Dvuliche / Queen of Spades
- Oleg Popov as Mag Univer
- Valentin Nikulin as Joker
- Yevgeni Morgunov as Tuz
- Valentina Kovel as Kargan / Queen of Spades
- Anatoliy Alekseev as chief of the guard
- Yevgeniya Vetlova as Evgeniya Aleksandrovna
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