Wedding in Malinovka

1967 film

1967 (1967)

Running time

95 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussianBox office74.6 million tickets^[1]

Wedding in Malinovka (Russian: Свадьба в Малиновке, Svadba v Malinovke) is a 1967 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Andrei Tutyshkin based on an operetta by Boris Aleksandrov adapted by Leonid Yukhvid.^[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
Liudmyla Alfimova as Sofya (vocals — Valentina Levko)
Valentina Lysenko as Yarinka
Yevgeni Lebedev as Nechipor
Zoya Fyodorova as Gorpina Dormidontovna
Heliy Sysoyev as Andreyka (vocal — Mikhail Egorov)
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
Mikhail Vodyanoy as Popandopulo^[4]
Tamara Nosova as Komarikha
Emma Treyvas as Tryndychikha
Aleksei Smirnov as Smetana
Margarita Krinitsyna
Aleksandr Orlov as priest
Lyubov Tishchenko
Aleksandr Zakharov
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