Don Diego and Pelagia

Don Diego and Pelagia
Directed by	Yakov Protazanov
Written by
Cinematography
Production company	Mezhrabpomfilm
Release date	24 February 1928
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent Russian intertitles

Don Diego and Pelagia (Russian: Дон Диего и Пелагея, romanized: Don Diego i Pelageya) is a 1928 Soviet silent comedy drama directed by Yakov Protazanov.^[1][2]

The film's art direction was by .

Plot[]

Head of a small railway station Yakov Ivanovich Golovach is obsessed with reading historical novels about knights. Fancying himself as the hero of one book – Don Diego, he loves to fight with an imaginary opponent. He is caught in the act by the female residents of the surrounding villages who came to the station of the arriving mail train in order to sell their simple culinary creations

Laughter of the peasant women drives Yakov Ivanovich furious. In a rage he orders to detain violators of the railway rules who are crossing the railway line. But he only manages to catch the dawdling old woman Pelageya Diomina ...

Cast[]

• as Pelageya Diomina
• Anatoliy Bykov as 'Don Diego', station master
• as Pelageya's husband
• as Natasha, member Komsomol
• Ivan Yudin as Misha, cell secretary Komsomol
• as Miroshka, guard Volispolkom
• as Night watcher
• as Uchraspred
• Mikhail Zharov as Himself
• as Militia man
• as Pope's Wife
• as Burocrat
• Sergei Tsenin as Burocrat
• Osip Brik as Burocrat
• as Cooperative Shop Employee
• as Postman's Guest
• Vera Maretskaya as Girl in trial
• Sofya Levitina as Woman in Jail

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links[]

• Don Diego and Pelagia at IMDb

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