{{Infobox film | name = The Humorist | image = | caption = | director = Michael Idov (as Mikhail Idov) | producer = {{Plainlist| * Artemio Benki * Aija Berzina * Alise Gelze * Artyom Vasilev }} | writer = Michael Idov (as Mikhail Idov) | starring = {{Plainlist| * Alexey Agranovich * Yuri Kolokolnikov * Alisa Khazanova * Polina Aug * Artem Grigoryev }} | music = {{Plainlist| * Leonid Desyatnikov * Alexey Sergunin }} | cinematography = Alexander Surkala | editing = Michal Lánsky | studio = Metrafilms<br>Sirena Film<br>Tasse Film | distributor = | released = {{Film date|2019|03|01}} | runtime = | country = Russia<br>Czech Republic<br>Latvia | language = Russian | budget = }}
'''''The Humorist''''' ({{langx|ru|Юморист}}, ''Jumorist'') is a 2019 drama film directed and written by Michael Idov.<ref>[https://www.kaliningrad.kp.ru/daily/26953/4007296/ Невеселый «Юморист»]</ref><ref>[https://omskzdes.ru/culture/59228.html ИЗВЕСТНЫЕ ПРОДЮСЕРЫ ОБСУДИЛИ В ОМСКЕ ПРИЧИНЫ СЦЕНАРНОГО КРИЗИСА В КИНО]</ref><ref>[https://gorod55.ru/news/culture/26-09-2018/v-omske-startoval-natsionalnyy-kinofestival-debyutov-dvizhenie В Омске стартовал Национальный кинофестиваль дебютов «Движение»]</ref><ref>[http://gtrk-omsk.ru/news/268890/ Звёзды российского кино снялись в фильмах конкурсантов "Движения"]</ref><ref>[http://www.omsk.aif.ru/culture/dvizhenie_budet_drugaya_realnost_i_filmy_budut_drugimi «Движение». «Будет другая реальность, и фильмы будут другими»]</ref><ref>[https://rg.ru/2018/09/27/reg-sibfo/ilia-stiuart-priznan-luchshim-prodiuserom-na-dvizhenii-2018.html Илья Стюарт признан лучшим молодым продюсером на "Движении-2018"]</ref>
== Plot == The film is set in the mid-80s. In the center of the plot is a successful Soviet humorist Boris Arkadyev, who, despite universal love and recognition, lacks creative freedom, as a result of which he becomes dangerous for society.<ref>[http://www.proficinema.ru/picture-making/russian/detail.php?ID=236219 Юморист]</ref>
==Cast== * Alexey Agranovich as Boris Arkadyev, a Jewish Soviet humorist * Yuri Kolokolnikov as Maxim Shelepin * Alisa Khazanova as Elvira, Arkadyev's wife * Polina Aug as Lina * Artem Grigoryev as K.G.B. agent * Olga Dibtseva as Galina * Anatoliy Kotenyov as general Yasenev * Pavel Ilin as Budovsky, a concert manager * Vilma Kutaviciute as Inara * Semyon Shteynberg as Semyon Grinberg, a humorist
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== External links == * {{IMDb title|id=7352942}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes|the_humorist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Humorist}} Category:2019 films Category:2019 Russian films Category:2019 Russian-language films Category:Russian-language drama films Category:Russian drama films Category:Czech drama films Category:Latvian drama films Category:Films about Jews and Judaism Category:2019 Czech films Category:2010s Latvian films