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The Wedding (1944 film)

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Directed by
  
Isidor Annensky

Music by
  
Valery Zhelobinsky

Production company
  
Kartuli Pilmi Mosfilm

Director
  
Isidor Annensky

Music director
  
Valery Zhelobinsky

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Written by
  
Isidor Annensky

Cinematography
  
Yuri Ekelchik

Initial release
  
1944

Screenplay
  
Isidor Annensky

Production companies
  
Mosfilm, Kartuli Pilmi

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Starring
  
Erast Garin Zoya Fyodorova Alexey Gribov Faina Ranevskaya Sergey Martinson

Cast
  
Faina Ranevskaya, Erast Garin, Sergey Martinson, Zoya Fyodorova, Aleksei Gribov

Similar
  
The Bear, Юбилей, Family Happiness, Late Flowers

The Wedding (Russian: Свадьба, Svadba) is a 1944 Soviet comedy film directed by Isidor Annensky.

Contents

The film, created by the eponymous vaudeville of Anton Chekhov, the stories of The Wedding with General, Before the wedding, the novel in 2 parts of the Marriage of convenience skit Bride and papa is a caustic satire on the mores of the middle class philistine pre-revolutionary Russia.

Plot

The burgess Zhigalov family who have a marriageable daughter Dasha, learn to their horror that the official Aplombov (Erast Garin) who dined with them every day and established himself as a groom, is not going to marry her at all. With great difficulty Dasha's father manages to persuade the ambitious groom to propose. The groom agrees, putting the condition of compulsory attendance of the General at the wedding.

And then finally the wedding takes place. At the festive moment the chief guest has arrived - the General. A scandal erupts at the peak of merriment when it became clear that the General is not really General, but only the captain of the second rank (lieutenant colonel). The wedding is ruined.

Cast

  • Alexey Gribov as Evdokim Zhigalov, father of the bride
  • Faina Ranevskaya as Nastassja Timofeevna Zhigalova, mother of the bride
  • Erast Garin as Epaminondas Maksimovic aplomb groom
  • Zoya Fyodorova as Dasha, bride
  • Nikolay Konovalov as Fedor Yakovlevich Revunov-Karaulov, the captain of the 2nd rank in retirement
  • Mikhail Yanshin as Andrei Nyunin, the agent of the insurance company
  • Sergey Martinson as Ivan Mikhailovich Yat, telegraph
  • Vera Maretskaya as Anna Martynovna Zmeyukina, midwife
  • Osip Abdulov as Harlampi Spiridonovich Dymba, confectioner
  • Lev Sverdlin as grinder
  • Tatyana Pelttser as doctor's wife
  • Irina Murzaeva as guest
  • Mikhail Pugovkin as guest
  • References

    The Wedding (1944 film) Wikipedia