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4.2/5 Rate Your Music Written by Vasili Lokot Release date 24 February 1928 Initial release 1927 | 7.1/10 IMDb Productioncompany Mezhrabpomfilm Country Soviet Union Cinematography Yevgeni Alekseyev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language SilentRussian intertitles Similar Man from the Restaurant, The White Eagle, The Tailor from Torzhok, The Three Million Trial, The Forty‑First | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don Diego and Pelagia (Russian: Дон Диего и Пелагея, Don Diego i Pelageya) is a 1928 Soviet silent comedy drama directed by Yakov Protazanov.
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The film's art direction was by Sergei Kozlovsky.
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...