Night Is Bright, TheRussia 2003, 95min.
Dir. Roman Balayan, Script. R.Ibrahimbekov, R.Balayan, Dir. of Phot. B.Verzhbicki, Art. Dir. S.Khotimski, Compos. V.Khrapachev, Prod. V.Dostal.
Cast: A.Kuzichev, A.Panin, O.Sutulova, I.Kupchenko, V.Gostyukhin.
The night can be bright even for blind people, if someone wishes badly. The film is about the dramas of everyday life in a boarding school for the blind, deaf and mutes. The plot evolves around the encount between two heroines – director of the school and an intern. | Balayan, Roman Roman Balayan (born 1941, Nerkin Horatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh)
A graduate of the Cinema School of the Kyiv Theater State Institute with a diploma of a film director in 1969, Balayan has since been living and working in Kyiv and Moscow as a film director, scriptwriter and producer.
Filmography
Thief (Vor, 1969); The Romashkin Effect (Effekt Romashkina, 1973); Kashtanka (1975); Lone Wolf (Biryuk, 1977); Flights in Dreams and in Reality (Polyoty vo sne i nayavu, 1982); Guard Me, My Talisman (Khrani menya, moy talisman, 1986); The Kiss (Potseluy, 1983); The Spy (Filyor, 1987); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uezda, 1989); The First Love (Pervaya lyubov, 1995); Two Moons, Three Suns (Dve luny, tri solntsa, 1998); A Night in the Parajanov Museum (1998); The Night Is Bright (Noch Svetla, 2004); Birds of Paradise (2008)
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