Wake Mukhin Up!

Wake Mukhin Up!

79 mins | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy | Oct. 21, 1968

During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.

Wake Mukhin Up!

79 mins | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy | Oct. 21, 1968

Wake Mukhin Up!
During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Разбудите Мухина!
Directors Yakov Segel
Writers Yakov Segel, Anatoli Grebnev

Cast

Sergey Shakurov

as Mukhin

Liliya Aleshnikova

as Lida / Lidiya / Livia

Aleksandr Palees

as Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Valery Kozinets

as Spartacus / metro train driver

Nikolai Rybnikov

as Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor

Nikolai Sergeyev

as physics teacher / Galileo Galilei

Ivan Ryzhov

as senator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery

Yuri Chekulayev

as Claudius

Semyon Safonov

as equipment inspector / Roman drinker man / inquisitor priest / priest confessing Mukhin

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

as student / Natalya Goncharova

Vera Ivleva

as student

Svetlana Konovalova

as Yevgeniya Nikolayevna

Valentina Telegina

as audience's janitor / Roman woman

Mikhail Gluzskiy

as Diogenes / Demosthenes / sculptor

Vladimir Grammatikov

as student / Roman man

Vadim Zakharchenko

as Nicholas I of Russia