- Country: USA
- Genres: Musical, Romance
- Release: 1939-12-29
- Director: Reinhold Schünzel
- Writers: Leon Gordon , Charles Bennett , Jacques Deval , Eric Maschwitz
- Language: English
- Stars: Nelson Eddy , Ilona Massey , Charles Ruggles , Frank Morgan (I) (1890–1949) , Lionel Atwill , C. Aubrey Smith , Joyce Compton , Dalies Frantz , Walter Woolf King , Phillip Terry
- Runtime: 102 min
- Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
- AKA: Balalaika (Sweden) , Balalajka (Slovenia) , Balalajka , Balalaika (United States of America) , Balalaika (Germany) , Balalaika (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Balalaikka (Finland) , Balalaika , Balalajka (Hungary) , Bałałajka (Poland) , Balalaika (Brazil) , Μπαλαλάικα (Greece) , Балалайка
- Plot: Prince Peter Karagin, an officer in the Cossack army, sees and hears lovely Lydia Marakova in the cafe Balalaika in St. Petersburg and wants to meet her. When he hears she likes to fraternize with a lower class of people, he gives a student 50 rubles for his clothing. She eventually accepts his persistant presence and they fall in love. Peter uses his influence to get Lydia an audition at the opera house, where she is hired and is scheduled to perform later. The Prince, however, is not aware that she, her father and brother are part of a revolutionary movement. Their mutual deception is quickly shattered when Peter and the Cossacks violently break up a revolutionary rally in the public square, where Lydia's brother is killed. Soon afterwards, she learns that the rebels plan to assassinate Peter and his uncle, General Karagin, at the opera house on opening night, and still in love, she warns Peter not to go to the performance. He cancels the reservations, but General Karagin decides to go, and Peter joins him.
- IMDB:tt0031074
Balalaika Cast · · · ALL
Reinhold Schünzel
Director
Nelson Eddy
Prince Peter Karagin, aka Peter Teranda
Ilona Massey
Lydia Marakova
Charles Ruggles
Nicki Popoff
Frank Morgan
(I)
(1890–1949)
Ivan Danchenoff
Lionel Atwill
Professor Marakov
C. Aubrey Smith
General Karagin
Joyce Compton
Masha
Dalies Frantz
Dimitri Marakov
Phillip Terry
Lieutenant Smirnoff
Walter Woolf King
Michael Sibirsky
Frederick Worlock
(1886–1973)
Ramensky
Abner Biberman
Leo Proplinski
Arthur W. Cernitz
Sergei Pavloff
Roland Varno
Lieutenant Nikitin
George Tobias
Slaski
Paul Sutton
Anton
Willy Castello
Capt. Testoff
Paul Irving
(I)
(1877–1959)
Prince Morodin
Mildred Shay
Jeanette Sibirsky
Alma Kruger
Mrs. Danchenoff
Zeffie Tilbury
Natalya Petrovna
Demetrius Alexis
(uncredited)
Dorothy Ates
Cafe Girl (uncredited)
Douglas Beattie
Baritone (uncredited)
John Bleifer
(uncredited)