Cloud paradise

Small provincial town, Sunday, early morning. Kohl wandering around the yard from idleness annoys his neighbors with stupid conversations. Not finding the interlocutors on the street, he comes to his friend Feda. They meet him tiredly and indifferently. Wanting to attract attention, Kolya says that he is allegedly going to go to a friend - to the Far East . This decision finds universal support, Kolya becomes a local hero, all the neighbors participate in his gatherings and wires. Under the dictation of Fedi, he writes a letter of resignation, Valya collects his suitcase, enterprising neighbors buy his furniture.

For the decision to leave a boring monotonous life, Kolya receives respect and even the envy of his acquaintances. And when he reports that the departure story is just a fiction, no one believes him anymore. Kolya is put on a bus, and he leaves his hometown and people who became his closest to him that day.

Conceiving the film "Cloud Paradise", Nikolai Dostal was looking for an actor who looked like Yuri Nikulin in his youth. The candidacy of Andrei Zhigalov was prompted by All Klyuk, who starred with him in the film “Body” by Nikita Khubov ^[1] . The film was shot in May-June 1990. The film premiered in October 1991. Fifteen years later, Nikolai Dostal filmed a sequel to the film with the same cast - “ Kolya - roll the field ” ^[2] .

Location

The film was shot in the city of Petrozavodsk ( Karelia ). A five-story residential building No. 12 on Frunze Street, sheds on Pioneer Street, as well as a sawmill and furniture factory ^[3] .

• Andrey Zhigalov - Kolya
• Sergey Batalov - Fedya
• Irina Rozanova - Valya, wife of Fedi
• Alla Klyuka - Natalia, Kolya girl
• Anna Ovsyannikova - Tatyana Ivanovna, mother of Natalia
• Vladimir Tolokonnikov - Filomeev
• Lev Borisov - Philip Makarovich, Kolya’s neighbor in the apartment
• Yuri Kolobkov - Vasilich
• Vera Ivleva - furniture dealer Kolya
• Alexander Chislov - satellite of Filomeev
• Mikhail Mezenev - accordionist
• Evgeny Titov - satellite of Filomeev
• Zinaida Vorkul - grandmother on a bench
• M. Nikitskaya - grandmother on a bench
• Boris Kamorzin - senior technician in Saratov, who entered Kolya’s room
• Igor and Dmitry Dmitrievs - porters
• Yura Popov is a neighbor boy

• Stage Director: Nikolay Dostal
• Script writer: George Nikolaev
• Artist: Alexey Aksenov
• Operators: Yuri Nevsky , Peter Serebryakov
• Producer: Alexander Mikhailov
• Composer: Alexander Goldstein , Andrey Zhigalov
• Directors of the picture: Fedor Popov , Alexey Golodnitsky .

In addition to the music of Alexander Goldstein, the film also contains songs written and performed by Andrei Zhigalov, Zvyozdochka and Cloud-Paradise, which gave the film its name.

• Prize "For breaking the barrier between films for the elite and cinema for all" at the first Kinotavr film festival in 1991.
• Golden Aries Prize 1992.
• “ Silver Leopard ” special grand jury prize and second prize of the city of Locarno , prize of the ecumenical jury, prize of the youth jury, prize of the International Confederation of Experimental Cinema in Locarno in 1991.
• Grand Prix II MFEC ( France ).
• Special jury prize to the cast of the film festival of young actors in Geneva , 1991.
• According to a survey of film critics and journalists, he was recognized as the best film of the year, the role of Andrei Zhigalov was recognized as the best male role.

• The song "Cloud Paradise" from the movie performed by A. Zhigalov (Russian) . youtube.com.
• Cloud Paradise on the Internet Movie Database