Yasha and Leonid Brezhnev

Overview

Yasha recently retired after serving many years at a factory, with a highlight of his career being a delegate of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1976. Yet his future is left unknown when he emerges in new realities that he finds difficult to accept. The world has changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, yet he tries to hold on to what once was. Thus enters former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Appearing like Yasha’s alter ego, he guides Yasha, giving amusing commentary and voicing what Yasha should say or do. Brezhnev’s presence gives way for more historical leaders that Yasha idolises to arrive. Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Josip Broz Tito and Erich Honecker, and even the African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa all make an appearance! When Yasha takes an oath of loyalty to them, this creates trouble for his family.

Cast

Mais Sarkisyan

Yasha

Maksim Vitorgan

Leonid Brezhnev

N/A

Ruzanna Khachatryan

Lilit Salnazaryan

Valya

N/A

Arsen Chachoyan

Avital Lvova

Elena Ceausescu

Nazir Zhukov

Samad Mansurov

N/A

Georgy Engelgard

Fidel Castro

Ksenia Kopylova

Nastya

Irina Abrosimova

Ludmila Ivanovna

N/A

Viktor Vinogradov

Rostropovich, Musician