Songwriter Eduard Surovy was famous in the 1970s, when the Comedy Club comedian Garik Kharlamov, who named his odious humorous character in his honor, was not yet in the project. With the personal approval of Leonid Brezhnev, Eduard was allowed to represent the USSR, closed by the iron curtain, at the famous European music competition.
Acting
Kharlamov playing his own namesake character is deeply unhinged
Costume
Soviet polyester glam that screams 'we have Eurovision at home'
Director
Roman Novikov
Garik Kharlamov
Eduard Surovyy / Self
Kristina Asmus
Olga Kalugina Greistok (v molodosti) / Self
Aleksandr Katin
Viktor Traparets - Podpolkovnik Sovetskoy Armii s 1967-1979 gody
Oleg Almazov
Igor Konopatskiy - major KGB
Anna-Mariya Danilenko
Edit Loran - uchastnitsa Evropeseya-74
Natalya Romashenko
Galina Dmitryuk - v nashe vremya
Sergey Panchenko
Johnn Blatt - producer Europesenya 1968-1974 gody
Olga Kozhevnikova
Elena Maksimovna Bryukhova
Irina Grishina
Olga Kalugina-Gristok - balerina (v nashe vremya)
Daniel Horvath
Govard Kempbell
Ismail Kone
Episodic role
Vera Tarasova
Galina Dmitryuk (v molodosti)
Ilia Averbukh
Self / Cameo
Dima Bilan
Self / Cameo
Mikhail Boyarskiy
Self / Cameo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Garik Kharlamov's 'Eduard Surovy' character originated in Comedy Club sketches years before this film, making this a rare case of a meme getting feature-length Soviet revisionist treatment.
The real Eurovision 1974 was ABBA's 'Waterloo' victory — the film's 'Evropeseya-74' imagines an alternate timeline where the USSR actually showed up to lose gloriously.
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