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The Last Polka follows the life, careers, and final concert of Yosh (Candy) and Stan (Levy) Shmenge, two brothers from the fictional country of Leutonia who become the biggest polka duo the world has ever seen, presented as a mixture of live concert performances and filmed scenes.
Mar 14, 1985 · The Last Polka: Directed by John Blanchard. With John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara. A mockumentary that depicts the final concert of Yosh and Stan Shmenge aka the Happy Wanderers.
Nov 8, 2013 · "The Last Polka is a 1985 comedy television film, and one of the first mockumentaries. It was written by and starred John Candy and Eugene Levy, and directed...
This was a made-for-cable (Showtime) comedy special starring John Candy and Eugene Levy's "SCTV Network" characters, polka stars Yosh and Stan Shmenge. The film traces their rise to prominence from their childhood in native Leutonia to their final comeback concert.
The Last Polka. Conceived of as a spoof on Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz, this made-for-cable TV movie has SCTV veterans Eugene Levy and John Candy portraying two polka kings performing at...
A comedy special, in a documentary format, that highlights the careers of Josh and John Shmenge, a famous Leutonia polka team. The special, which traces the difficult rise to fame of Josh and Stan, the children of a poor family of cabbage pickers in Leutonia (located on the dark side of the...
Mar 14, 1985 · ''The Last Polka,'' a zany ''documentary'' sendup of that concert and a review of the career of the Shmenges, makes its debut on Home Box Office tonight at 8 o'clock.
