How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea

How Dark the Nights Are on the Black Sea is a 1989 Soviet comedy film directed by Vasili Pichul. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Cast Aleksei Zharkov as Stepanych, seasoned conman Natalya Negoda as Lena Anastasiya Vertinskaya as Lena's mother Alexander Lenkov as Lena's father Anna Tikhonova as Jeanne, shopgirl Grigori Manukov as Oleg Strelnikov Aleksandr Negreba as head of theatre Aleksandr Mironov as policeman Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as Fedor Fedorovich Strelnikov Andrei Sokolov as Boris, Stepanych's son Igor Zolotovitsky as Gubanischev Levan Mskhiladze as Sasha, Lena's former groom Maria Yevstigneyeva as Marina, Lena's former friend Yuri Nazarov as Glazier, criminal Boris Smorchkov as Jeanne's father Inna Ulyanova as lady in the restaurant Yervant Arzumanyan as Ashot Aramovich, theatre director Alexandra Tabakova as Masha Andrey Fomin as playwright Nadezhda Markina as Sonya, Oleg Strelnikov's wife References External links