We're from Jazz
Jun 06 1983
•1h 29m
•Music, Comedy
A music student is expelled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city to another trying to gain fame.
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Igor Sklyar
Kostya Ivanov
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
Stepan Grushko
Nikolai Averyushkin
Zhura Ryabov
Pyotr Shcherbakov
Ivan Bavurin
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