Streak of Luck

The fifth film in a Mosfilm "youth" anthology series comprising three short stories. The first story, 'Vizit' (The Visit), directed by filmmaker turned politician Yevgeni Gerasimov, tells the story of a rural boy visiting his former village girlfriend, now living in Moscow. Next comes a short film by Aleksandr Majorov called 'Zolotye rybki' (Goldfishes), which is based on a story of a magical goldfish brought from a provincial pet store by the late Russian historian and science-fiction and fantasy writer Kir Bulychyov. The final segment and the title of the film, 'Polosa vezeniya' (Streak of Luck), tells the story of a member of staff at a research institute who is offered the job of department head but has second thoughts when he discovers the previous boss was unfairly dismissed.

• Release date
• August 22, 1983
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Yevgeni Gerasimov

Cast

Oleg Stefan Natalya Vavilova Svetlana Nemolyaeva Galina Polskikh Vyacheslav Nevinnyy Tatyana Bozhok

S

Sergei Balabanov Mikhail Kononov