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
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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