While the Dream is Mad
1978, Russian. Directed by Yuriy Gorkovenko.
Yura Otvertkin, a romantic from Tsarevo-Kokshaisk, is obsessively in love with aeronautics. In St. Petersburg, disguised, he pretends to be the ace Ivan Piramida. He has to perform at the festival, but he only knows how to fly "according to the books", but he manages not to lose face. After a lot of ups and downs associated with his similarity in makeup with a famous criminal, Yura confesses everything to his beloved and flies already under his real name.
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- Post-credits
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- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 July 1978
- Original title
- Пока безумствует мечта
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Vasiliy Aksyonov
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While the Dream is Mad isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 July 1978. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed While the Dream is Mad?
While the Dream is Mad (1978) was directed by Yuriy Gorkovenko and stars Nikolai Karachentsov, Lyubov Reymer, Emmanuil Vitorgan.