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Directed by Isidor Annensky Productioncompany Kartuli PilmiMosfilm Director Isidor Annensky Music director Valery Zhelobinsky | 8.2/10 Written by Isidor Annensky Cinematography Yuri Ekelchik Initial release 1944 Screenplay Isidor Annensky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Erast GarinZoya FyodorovaAlexey GribovFaina RanevskayaSergey Martinson Cast 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.