House Under The Starry Sky

House Under The Starry Sky (Russian: Дом под звёздным небом) - Soviet 1991 film directed by Sergei Solovyov. The last part of the director’s trilogy “Assa” (1987)/Black Rose - Emblem of Sorrow, Red Rose - Emblem of Love (1989)/House under the Starry Sky (1991).

Plot
The plot focuses on the family of a prominent Soviet academician Bashkirtsev (Mikhail Ulyanov) (a parallel with the main character of the movie Taming the Fire), a successful scientist. Returning from a business trip abroad, he discovers a surveillance. On his anniversary, his daughter’s husband Konstantin brings his “Mosconcert comrade” Valentin Composterov (Alexander Bashirov), who is extremely defiant. Taking up a trick, he cuts off Konstantin's wife, and then, after drinking, falls unconscious. The next day, he declares that he is not able now, when "everything has healed," to heal two halves of her body. In the future, Composters behaves like a real "unclean force", bringing death and ruin to the Bashkirtsev’s house. Bashkirtsev asks to provide him with protection, and more and more policemen appear in his house.

Bashkirtsev’s daughter Nika (Maria Anikanova) meets on the Arbat the young man Timofey, who plays the flute and lives in an empty hangar, where he builds a balloon from stolen materials. They start a romance.

After the death and burial of the academician kidnapped and tortured by strange people (their actions parody stereotypes about secret special operations of the KGB), his family flies to the USA, where the eldest son of the academician Boris lives. Nick remains to do some business. Composters appears again and, threatening Konstantin, who remained in Russia with death, comes to the house. Nevertheless, Niki Composter does not know about the presence. When he drives off for vodka, Konstantin, Nika and Timofey run away to Victory, and the pursuit begins immediately. Mysterically retarded plumber Jora and Composter himself fall under crossfire, the fugitives see the corpse in a mutilated car. However, soon the trinity again encounters Komposterov, alive and unharmed; This time, Konstantin shot him, and the allegedly dead monster dissolves in water. When Konstantin, Timofey and Nika begin to rise in a balloon, the newly risen Composter kills Kostya with a laser beam, but in the end Timofey and Nika manage to completely kill the bastard by shooting him again, burning the corpse and urinating on him. They fly away in a balloon just at the moment when the KGB officers are approaching in order to capture the guys.

Cast

 * Mikhail Ulyanov - Academician Andrey Bashkirtsev
 * Alla Parfanyak - Sonya, his wife
 * Daughters of Bashkirtsev:
 * Alexandra Turgan - Lisa, the eldest daughter
 * Masha Anikanova - Nika, the youngest daughter
 * Valery Svetlov - Boris, son of Bashkirtsev
 * Olga Malinina - Judy, his wife
 * Anna Solovyova - Catherine, daughter of Boris and Judy
 * Ilya Ivanov - Kologrivov Konstantin, husband of Lisa
 * Seva Balyan - Kologrivov Zhenya
 * Olga Vsevolodskaya - Rachel Solomonovna
 * Dmitry Solovyov - Timofey
 * Alexander Bashirov - Valentin Komposterov, a small demon in various guises (a beauty in the subway, a border guard)
 * Anatoly Slivnikov - General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
 * Yuri Shumilo - Tarabanko Matvey Arkadevich (Motya), Bashkirtsev's bodyguard
 * Valery Perekhvatov - “Colonel”
 * Lyubov Yakuba - wife of the general
 * Gennady Bordachyov - Gene, Bashkirtsev's driver
 * Alexander Abdulov - plumber Zhora
 * Felix Schultess - Solovyov
 * Evgeny Markov - military man with a portrait of Bashkirtsev at the funeral
 * Simon Furman - Psychiatrist
 * Yuri Dumchev - athlete
 * Sergey Galkin - Valerian Kapitonovich
 * in the episodes - Sergey Kuryokhin, Dmitry Kalinin, V. Vladislavtsev, Ilya Narodova, V. Noskachev, Vladimir Privalov, Natalya Pyankova, Svetlana Dzasukhova (in the credits of S. Dzasokhov).