

Musical Story
1940-10-24 · 84 min · ★ 4.8
Talented cabbie with aspirations as a singer spends afterhours practicing with an amateur opera company, ignoring his sweetheart, the femme cab dispatcher.
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- Directors
- Herbert Rappaport, Aleksandr Ivanovsky
- Production companies
- Lenfilm
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Sergey LemeshevPetya Govorkov
Zoya FyodorovaKlava Belkina
Erast GarinCabbie Tarahkanov
Nikolai KonovalovMaestro Makedonsky
Anatoly KorolkevichPankov
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