Jazzman
Original title: My iz dzhaza
1983 · 1 h 29 min
Karen ShakhnazarovCast
Igor Sklyar 
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy Nikolay Averyushkin 
Pyotr Shcherbakov Elena Tsyplakova 
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Credits
Written by: 
Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
Plot
A music student is expelled from the conservatory and starts a band, and a comedy of jazz and Soviet life begins.
Sinekatalog’s take
Karen Shakhnazarov's Soviet comedy, Dzhazmen, with Igor Sklyar, is a lively, popular and nostalgic film about jazz in the 1920s.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (1,116 votes)
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