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A story about love between famous composer Johann Strauss and Russian beauty Olga.
There was no Soviet actor who could claim a greater popularity than Raikin. He was allowed the impossible: to be a satirist. Even during the height of government approved Anti-Semitism, Raikin was a figure to be reckoned with. He was known and beloved by all, his razor-sharp wit admired - and feared. In fact, president Putin met his future wife at a Raikin show. The film follows Raikin to his shows, on stage, and backstage, during rehearsals, at rest, and during conversations with his friends, including legendary Soviet jazz singer Leonid Utesov, film director Yuli Raizman, the poet Bella Ahmadullina, and the American film director George Kukor.
The daughter of a sailor who died at sea, she lives in a port city with her mother. The shipowner threatens to kick them out of the house if they don't pay for six months or if she doesn't marry him. The handsome sailor and rebel appears in the city, and makes her fall in love with him. Shipowner finds out about this. When the police commissioner shows him the photograph of the rebel sent, he recognizes the sailor, who got a job with him on a ship on which weapons are transported under the guise of oranges.
An elderly man - a naive, impractical artist of the musical comedy theater - writes an operetta about goodness. His son is a resuscitation doctor, very businesslike and practical, and teases him all the time. The marriage of Petrov Sr. to the young ballerina Alena also did not add harmony to their relationship. But one day, father and son suddenly realize how necessary they are to each other... When the young stepmother begins to be in danger during childbirth, the son stops being sarcastic and fulfills his human and filial duty.
