Top Cast
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Alexey Agranovich
Boris Arkadiev
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Semen Shteinberg
Semyon Greenberg
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Alisa Khazanova
Elvira Arkadieva
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Vilma Kutaviciute
Inara
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Pavel Ilyin
Alexei Budovskiy
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Daniel Shifrin
Ilya
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Polina Aug
Lina Morozova
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Artem Volobuev
Alexander Nikonov
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Yuri Kolokolnikov
Maxim Shepelin
Overview
The Humorist is a film about a week in the life of Boris Arkadiev, a fictional Soviet stand-up comedian. Boris is tormented not only by external oppression and censorship but also by his own insecurities that poison all his relationships.
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