Winter Evening in Gagra (Russian: Зимний вечер в Гаграх, romanized: Zimniy vecher v Gagrakh) is a 1985 musical comedy-drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.
The protagonist of the film who once was a famous tap dancer, an idol of the public, lives today modestly and discreetly.
A man with a gimp leg named Arkady Grachev approaches Aleksey one day pleading with him to teach him how to tap dance.
According to the testimony of Karen Shakhnazarov, Winter Evening in Gagra became a kind of continuation of his previous film We Are from Jazz.
In his youth, Bystrov worked in Alexandrov Ensemble, in 1949 he became a laureate of the Second International Ballet Competition in Budapest.