Wedding in Malinovka
Wedding in Malinovka | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | Leonid Yukhvid |
Produced by | Semyon Malkin |
Cinematography | Vyacheslav Fastovich |
Edited by | Mariya Pen |
Music by | Boris Aleksandrov |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Box office | 74.6 million tickets[1] |
Wedding in Malinovka (Russian: Свадьба в Малиновке, Svadba v Malinovke) is a 1967 Soviet musical comedy film directed by based on an operetta by Boris Aleksandrov adapted by .[2][3]
The film is about a Ukrainian village during the time of the Russian Civil War. With power alternating almost daily between Soviet and Ukrainian nationalist forces, the villagers of Malinovka are never sure who is in charge, so they modify their behaviour and dress accordingly.
Cast[]
- Vladimir Samoilov as Nazar Duma, Red squadron commander
- as Sofya (vocals — Valentina Levko)
- as Yarinka
- Yevgeni Lebedev as Nechipor
- Zoya Fyodorova as Gorpina Dormidontovna
- as Andreyka (vocal — )
- Mikhail Pugovkin as Yashka the Gunner
- Nikolai Slichenko as Petrya
- Grigori Abrikosov as Grytsko Balyasny, or Pan-Ataman Gritsian Tavrichesky.
- Andrei Abrikosov as Balyasny Senior
- as Popandopulo[4]
- Tamara Nosova as Komarikha
- Emma Treyvas as Tryndychikha
- Aleksei Smirnov as Smetana
- as priest
- Vyacheslav Voronin as Chechil
- N. Kogan
- B. Moreno
- A. Pishvanov
- Yu. Shepelev
Dance scenes were cast with the participation of the Moldovan dance troupe Joc.
Cultural influence[]
One of the film's main characters, Nazar Duma, has a completely unrelated namesake in a different famous Soviet film, Tractor Drivers (1939). This coincidence was used in a crossover parody film, Tractor Drivers 2.
References[]
- ^ Sergey Kudryavtsev (4 July 2006). "Отечественные фильмы в советском кинопрокате". LiveJournal. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Derek Elley, World Filmography: 1967 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977, ISBN 9780498015656, 639 pp.
- ^ Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian Routledge, 2013, ISBN 9781136787867, 440 p.
- ^ В поселке Малиновка был установлен памятник герою одноименного фильма Попандопуло
External links[]
- 1967 films
- Russian-language films
- 1967 in the Soviet Union
- Lenfilm films
- Soviet films
- 1967 musical comedy films
- Films set in Ukraine
- Soviet musical comedy films
- Russian musical comedy films
- Films based on operettas
- Russian Civil War films
- 1960s Soviet film stubs
- Musical comedy film stubs