View Item - RU-J002-1983

Language:
Russian
Duration:
80 minutes
Catalog Num:
RU-J002-1983
Title:
Jazzman -- LOCATED IN I.A.S. OFFICE
Item Type:
Video
Medium:
VHS
Program:
International Studies

Reserved:
No
Status:
Available

In the late twenties , a young jazz enthusiast departs music school where jazz is condemned as a " monstrous product of bourgeois society" . He forms a jazz band with two colorful street musicians and a saxophonist left over fro the Czar's marching band. The quartet faces many comic situations before recognition including a performance at a notorious gangster's birthday party and intrepid pursuit of one of the world's greatest jazz singers. Notes: Russian with English subtitles. Director: Karen Shakhnazarov. Actors: Alexander Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov . Color. Country: Russia. Subtitled. (I.A.S. now located in Old McMillan 254.)

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