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Balalaika is a american film of genre Musical released in USA on 15 december 1939 with Nelson Eddy

Balalaika (1939)

Balalaika
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Released in USA 15 december 1939
Length 1h42
OriginUSA
Genres Musical,    Romance
Rating61% 3.0944653.0944653.0944653.0944653.094465

Balalaika is a 1939 American musical romance film based on the 1936 London stage musical of the same name. Produced by Lawrence Weingarten and directed by Reinhold Schunzel, it starred Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey.

The film follows the romance of Prince Peter Karagin and Lydia Pavlovna Marakova, a singer and secret revolutionary, in Imperial Russia on the eve of World War I.

Synopsis

In 1914 Tsarist Russia, Prince Peter Karagin (Nelson Eddy) is a captain of the Cossack Guards, riding home from manoeuvres to an evening of wine, women and song at St. Petersburg's Cafe Balalaika. The Balalaika's new star, Lydia Pavlovna Marakova (Ilona Massey), is blackmailed into attending the officers' party and is expected to choose a "favoured one." She intrigues Karagin when she makes good her escape instead.

Actors

Nelson Eddy

(Prince Peter Karagin, aka Peter Teranda)Ilona Massey

(Lydia Marakova)Charles Ruggles

(Nicki Popoff)Lionel Atwill

(Professor Marakov)C. Aubrey Smith

(General Karagin)
And :
Frank Morgan
Joyce Compton
Abner Biberman
George Tobias
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