Walking the Streets of Moscow is a 1963 Soviet movie directed by Georgiy Daneliya and produced by Mosfilm studios. It stars Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexei Loktev, Evgeniy Steblov and Galina Polskikh. The film also features cameos by four People's Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova. The famous movie theme, performed by Mikhalkov, was written by the composer Andrei Petrov. The film, regarded as one of the most characteristic of the Khrushchev Thaw, premiered at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival and won a prize for the work of cameraman, Vadim Yusov, best... known for his subsequent collaboration with Andrei Tarkovsky. The film opens at a Moscow airport in summer 1963. A young man, Volodya , calls out to a young woman he sees singing to herself and dancing. Volodya is an aspiring writer from Siberia. His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost , and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Moscow to discuss his work.
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| Release date: | 1963 |
| Directed by: | Georgi Daneliya |
| Runtime: | 78 Minutes |
| Cinematography: | Vadim Yusov |