Balalaika (1939)

Directors

Reinhold Schünzel

Cast

Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan

The story

In 1914 Tsarist Russia, Prince Peter Karagin is a captain of the Cossack Guards, riding home from manoeuvres to an evening of wine, women and song at St. Petersburg's Cafe Balalaika. The Balalaika's new star, Lydia Pavlovna Marakova, is blackmailed into attending the officers' party and is expected to choose a "favoured one." She intrigues Karagin when she makes good her escape instead.

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