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Music by
  
Mieczysław Weinberg

Edited by
  
Aleksandr Ivanovsky

Music director
  
Mieczysław Weinberg

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Cinematography
  
Apollinari Dudko

Initial release
  
11 March 1955

Production company
  
Lenfilm

Directed by
  
Nadezhda KosheverovaAleksandr Ivanovsky

Written by
  
Klimenti MintsEvgeniy Pomeshchikov

Starring
  
Lyudmila KasatkinaPavel KadochnikovLeonid Bykov

Directors
  
Nadezhda Kosheverova, Aleksandr Ivanovsky

Screenplay
  
Klimenti Mints, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov

Cast
  
Lyudmila Kasatkina, Leonid Bykov, Pavel Kadochnikov

Similar
  
Maxim Perepelitsa, Striped Trip, Be Careful - Grandma!, Little Hare, Marina's Destiny


Tamer of Tigers (released in English as Tiger Girl, Russian: Укротительница тигров, Ukrotitelnitsa tigrov) is a 1955 Soviet-era comedy film released by Lenfilm, and directed by Nadezhda Kosheverova and Aleksandr Ivanovsky. It was billed as a "lyrical and eccentric comedy." This film was the debut of Soviet actress Lyudmila Kasatkina. The premiere was held in the USSR on 11 March 1955.

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Story

The famous motorcycle racer Fyodor Nikolayevich Yermolayev received an invitation to work in the circus as an artist of the performance "Jump on a motorcycle under the top of the circus dome."

Lena Vorontsova, who was born in a circus family and worked cleaning out the circus animal cages, dreams about having a career as an actress. Due to Lena's love of animals, she often finds herself in conflict with narcissistic trainer Kazimierz Almazov.

Lena is hopelessly in love with a friend and fellow front Fedor, Peter Mate river tug Mokin.

The chief mate of a river tugboat, Pyotr Mokin, loves Lena Vorontsova hopelessly. He is the friend and front-line comrade of Fyodor Yermolayev.

Main roles

  • Lyudmila Kasatkina — the tamer of tigers Yelena (Lena) Vorontsova, the main heroine of this film
  • Pavel Kadochnikov — the famous motorcycle racer Fyodor Nikolayevich Yermolayev
  • Leonid Bykov — the chief mate of a river tug and ex. seaman Petya Mokin
  • Pavel Suhanov — the director of the circus Nikita Antonovich
  • Konstantin Sorokin — the accountant-general Ferapont Ilyich, father of Olechka (Olga)
  • Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova — Matiya Mikhailovna, mother of Olechkа (Olga)
  • Nina Urgant — Olechka (Olga), she wants to marry the famous motorcycle racer Fyodor Nikolayevich Yermolayev
  • Boris Eder — the tamer Anton Afanasiyevich Telyegin
  • Tatyana Pelttser — Emmy Styepanovna Vorontsova, mother of the main heroine
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Orlov — Vasiliy Valiliyevich Vorobtsov, father of the main heroine
  • Sergey Filippov — the tamer Kazimir Almazov
  • Anatoliy Korolkevich — the illusionist Mogikan
  • Nikolay Trofimov - the editor of wall newspaper Myshkin

    • Supporting roles and substitutions

    Names of the following persons mentioned on the cine-film:

  • Pyotr Lobanov — the ancle Vasya
  • Mikhail Ivanov — the guitar player ob the tug boat
  • the tamer Margarita Nazarova — the body double for Kasatkina in the scenes with tigers
  • Vladimir Tsvetkov - the ringmaster (circus)

    • Names of the following persons have not mentioned on the cine-film:

  • Sergey Karnovich-Valua — the conductor of the circus orchestra
  • Yelizaveta Uvarova — the barmaid Mariya Ivanovna
  • Tatyana Oppengaim — in the episode

    • Main heroes and actors

    Kasatkina performed the main role in the film Tamer of Tigers, that of Yelena Vorontsova.

    Soviet actor Pavel Kadochnikov, the main hero, starred in the Soviet Union's first spy film Secret Agent in 1947.

    When shooting a scene with the tigers, Kasatkina refused to go into the cage with the animals. For this reason, she had an understudy, professional trainer Margarita Nazarova, whose complexion was significantly different from Kasatkina's.

    Accolades

    In 1955 Soviet film, Tiger Girl, the English name of the film Tamer of Tigers received Diploma on the Second International Film Festival in Durban, South Africa.

    References

    Tamer of Tigers Wikipedia
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