We Are from Jazz is a Soviet comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 by Karen Shahnazarov.

Plot

A student is expelled from music school because he loves jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, and jazz at that time (film represents 1920s) is a kind of music that represents USA capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.

Cast

• Igor Sklyar
  Igor Sklyar
  Igor Sklyar is a Russian actor and singer. He has appeared in over 30 films since 1974. He starred in the 1994 film The Year of the Dog, which won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution at the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* We Are from Jazz * The...
  
   as Konstantin
• Alexander Pankratov-Chorny as Stefan
• Nikolai Averyushkin as Georgi
• Pyotr Shcherbakov as Ivan
• Yelena Tsyplakova as Katie
• Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
  Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
  Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev was a prominent Soviet movie and theater actor and one of the founders of Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR ....
  
   as Papa
• Leonid Kuravlyov
  Leonid Kuravlyov
  Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov is a Soviet/Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR .Leonid Kuravlyov was born in Moscow in 1936. He lost his father when he was still a little boy. In 1941, Kuravlyov's mother was falsely accused and exiled to the Russian North, where they would spend...
  
  
• Borislav Brondukov
  Borislav Brondukov
  Boryslav Brondukov was a Ukrainian and Soviet film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.He was born in the village of Dubava somewhere in Kiev oblast of Ukrainian SSR in a Russian-Polish family...
  
   as Captain Kopeikin
• Larisa Dolina
  Larisa Dolina
  Larisa Aleksandrovna Dolina is an Azerbaijani-born prominent Russian jazz and pop singer and an actress...
  
   as Clementine Fernandez
• Yuri Vasilyev
• Nikolai Kochegarov
• Pyotr Merkuryev
• Yuri Gusev
• Irina Mazur

• Vladimir Aleksandrov
• K. Bakhchiyev
• Vladimir Bobrov
• K. Chakhiryan
• Boris Gitin
• O. Kazanchev
• Grigori Malikov
• Vyacheslav Patsal
• Vladimir Pitsek
• Aleksandr Pyatkov
• R. Sadykov
• Oleg Savosin
• Yekaterina Semyonova
• I. Shubin
• P. Skladchikov
• L. Yankov