Grigori ALEXANDROV
Григорий АЛЕКСАНДРОВ
Grigori ALEXANDROV
USSR, 1940, 102mn 
Black and white, fiction
The Bright Way
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Светлый путь

 

 La Voie lumineuse

 Svetlyy put

Other titles : The Shining Path
 
Directed by : Grigori ALEXANDROV (Григорий АЛЕКСАНДРОВ)
Writing credits : Viktor ARDOV (Виктор АРДОВ)
 
Cast
Osip ABDULOV (Осип АБДУЛОВ)
Liubov ORLOVA (Любовь ОРЛОВА) ...Tania MOROZOVA
Yevgeni SAMOILOV (Евгений САМОЙЛОВ) ...Alexeï LEBEDEV
Yelena TIAPKINA (Елена ТЯПКИНА) ...secrétaire du Parti Communiste Maria Sergeevna
Vladimir VOLODIN (Владимир ВОЛОДИН)
Rina ZELYONAIA (Рина ЗЕЛЕНАЯ)
 
Cinematography : Boris GORBACHEV (Борис ГОРБАЧЕВ), Boris PETROV (Борис ПЕТРОВ)
Production design : Boris KNOBLOCK (Борис КНОБЛОК)
Music : Isaac DUNAEVSKY (Исаак ДУНАЕВСКИЙ)
Sound : Valery POPOV (Валерий ПОПОВ), Nikolay TIMARTSEV (Николай ТИМАРЦЕВ)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 08/10/1940
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
A story of a Soviet Cinderella. Tanya, an uneducated, but hard-working peasant girl comes to a town and is engaged first as a daily maid, then as a cleaning woman at a textile factory, goes to study. Soon she becomes an advanced weaver, and is awarded the Order of Lenin, graduates from an institute. She is elected Deputy to the Supreme Soviet. Lebedev, an engineer who became director at the factory, still loves her. Having met him at the opening ceremony of the All-Union agricultural exhibition, Tanya realizes that she loves him too.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq comédies musicales soviétiques qui ont volé la vedette à Hollywood, Neha PATEL, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2018
«Нам уже не до смеха»: Музыкальные кино комедии Григория Александрова, Rimgaila SALYS, Новое литературное обозрение, 2012
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet musicals, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2009
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2006
- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (France), 2002
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2000

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