Promised Heaven (1991)

Nebesa Obetovannye | Russia

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...

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Director

Eldar Ryazanov

Stars

Valentin Gaft
President

Oleg Basilashvili
President's friend

Liya Akhedzhakova
Fima

Olga Volkova
Katya Ivanova

Leonid Bronevoy
'Banzai', the Colonel

Svetlana Nemolyaeva
President's ex-wife

Natalya Gundareva
Luska

Roman Kartsev
Solomon

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy
Antisemit

Nina Ruslanova

Others...

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Production

Mosfilm, Slovo, Cinebridge

Actor

Valentin Gaft, Oleg Basilashvili, Liya Akhedzhakova, Olga Volkova, Leonid Bronevoy, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Natalya Gundareva, Roman Kartsev, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Nina Ruslanova, Nina Agapova, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Fyodor Dunayevsky, Mikhail Filippov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Valeriy Nosik, Aleksandr Pashutin, Aleksandr Pyatkov, Stanislav Sadalskiy, Natalya Shchukina, Mariya Vinogradova, Sergei Artsybashev, Oleg Sevastyanov, Tatyana Gavrilova, Alexandr Golubev

Creators

Leonid Kalashnikov (Director of Photography), Eldar Ryazanov (Director), Henrietta Altman (Writer)

Release dates

01.01.1991 (RU)
01.01.1991 (US)