The Happy Canary or The Gay Canary (Russian: Весёлая канарейка, romanized: Vesyolaya kanareyka) is a 1929 Soviet silent adventure film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Galina Kravchenko, Andrey Fayt and Ada Vojtsik.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Sergei Kozlovsky.
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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".