The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin

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The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin
Directed by	Yuri Kara
Written by	Fazil Iskander
Starring	Aleksei Petrenko Aleksandr Feklistov Valentin Gaft Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev
Cinematography	Vadim Semyonovykh
Music by	Edison Denisov
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	1989 (1989)
Running time	83 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin or (Russian: Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным, romanized: Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym) is a 1989 film adaptation of Fazil Iskander's eponymous novella directed by Yuri Kara.^[1] In the 1990s the film was screened in the United States, including at the United States Congress.^[2] The title is a reference to Belshazzar's feast, a chapter of the Book of Daniel.