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1968 Drama Comedy Fantasy 1h 19m

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.

6.5 TMDB RATING
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Principal Cast

Sergey Shakurov

Mukhin

Liliya Aleshnikova

Lida / Lidiya / Livia

Aleksandr Palees

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Valeri Kozinets

Spartacus / metro train driver

Nikolai Rybnikov

Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor

Nikolai Sergeyev

physics teacher / Galileo Galilei

Ivan Ryzhov

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

Yuri Chekulayev

Claudius

Semyon Safonov

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

Mikaela Drozdovskaya

student / Natalya Goncharova

Vera Ivleva

student

Svetlana Konovalova

Yevgeniya Nikolayevna

Valentina Telegina

audience's janitor / Roman woman

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Diogenes / Demosthenes / sculptor

Vladimir Grammatikov

student / Roman man

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