---
title: 'Taxi Blues (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Pavel Lungin'
released: '1990-05-11'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/taxi-blues-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100757/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Taxi Blues (1990)

1990 · 110 min · Comedy · Soviet Union, France

Original title: Такси-блюз

## Synopsis

Taxi Blues is a 1990 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Pavel Lungin. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival where Lungin won the award for Best Director. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film tells the story of Shlykov, a hard-working taxi driver and Lyosha, a saxophonist, develop a bizarre love-hate relationship, and despite their prejudices, realize they are not so different after all.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Pavel Lungin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-lungin)
- **Screenplay:** [Pavel Lungin](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-lungin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Vladimir Chekasin](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-chekasin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Denis Yevstigneyev](https://cinepixo.com/people/denis-yevstigneyev)

## Cast

- [Hal Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-singer)
- [Dmitri Prigov](https://cinepixo.com/people/dmitri-prigov)
- [Pyotr Mamonov](https://cinepixo.com/people/pyotr-mamonov)
- [Igor Zolotovitskiy](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-zolotovitskiy)
- [Valeri Khlevinsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/valeri-khlevinsky)
- [Nataliya Kolyakanova](https://cinepixo.com/people/nataliya-kolyakanova)
- [Sergey Gazarov](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergey-gazarov)
- [Vladimir Kashpur](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-kashpur)
- [Pyotr Zaychenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/pyotr-zaychenko)
- [Evgeniy Gerchakov](https://cinepixo.com/people/evgeniy-gerchakov)
- [Yelena Safonova](https://cinepixo.com/people/yelena-safonova)

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