Mikhail ZHAROV
Михаил ЖАРОВ
Mikhaïl JAROV
USSR, 1946, 84mn 
Black and white, fiction
The Troublesome Unit
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Беспокойное хозяйство

 

 Une entreprise mouvementee

 Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo

 
Directed by : Mikhail ZHAROV (Михаил ЖАРОВ)
 
Cast
Lyudmila TSELIKOVSKAIA (Людмила ЦЕЛИКОВСКАЯ) ...Tonia Kalmykova
 
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 17,8 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 15/05/1946
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
A touching comedy about the common soldiers of the Great Patriotic War who service a false airfield that distracts enemy’s attention. Tonya, a lance corporal, and private Ogurtsov are placed under senior sergeant Semibab’s orders. Ogurtsov who is in love with Tonya, discovers that he has rivals - the pilots, and he confides his sufferings to his diary. Tonya and Semibab successfully expose a German spy laid up in a village, and Ogurtsov even manages to capture an enemy troops column. And Tonya herself writes in Ogurtsov’s diary the words of affection.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
À propos de l’image de la France dans quelques films soviétiques (1929-1956), Natalia IAKOVLEVA, Presses Universitaires du Midi, Le Cinéma "stalinien", 2003
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024

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