The Happy Canary or The Gay Canary () is a 1929 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Galina Kravchenko, Andrey Fayt and Ada Vojtsik.Christie & Taylor p.429
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".
References
Bibliography Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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