Yuri CHULYUKIN
Юрий ЧУЛЮКИН
Youri TCHOULIOUKINE
USSR, 1961, 98mn 
Black and white, fiction
Devchata
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Девчата

 

 Girls

 Les Filles

 
Directed by : Yuri CHULYUKIN (Юрий ЧУЛЮКИН)
Writing credits : Boris BEDNY (Борис БЕДНЫЙ)
Based on the story by B. Bedny of the same name.
 
Cast
Anatoli ADOSKIN (Анатолий АДОСКИН) ...Dementiev
Viktor BAIKOV (Виктор БАЙКОВ) ...Ksan Ksanytch
Svetlana DRUZHININA (Светлана ДРУЖИНИНА) ...Anfissa
Stanislav KHITROV (Станислав ХИТРОВ) ...Filia
Inna MAKAROVA (Инна МАКАРОВА) ...Nadia
Nina MENSHIKOVA (Нина МЕНЬШИКОВА) ...Vera
Lyusyena OVCHINNIKOVA (Люсьена ОВЧИННИКОВА) ...Katia
Mikhail PUGOVKIN (Михаил ПУГОВКИН) ...L'intendant
Nadezhda RUMIANTSEVA (Надежда РУМЯНЦЕВА) ...Tossia
Nikolay RYBNIKOV (Николай РЫБНИКОВ) ...Ilya
 
Cinematography : Timofei LEBESHEV (Тимофей ЛЕБЕШЕВ)
Production design : Irina SHRETER (Ирина ШРЕТЕР)
Music : Aleksandra PAKHMUTOVA (Александра ПАХМУТОВА)
Sound : Raisa MARGACHEVA (Раиса МАРГАЧЕВА)
Editing : M. KUZMINA (М. КУЗЬМИНА)
Companies : Mosfilm
Spectators : 34,8 millions of spectators
Release Date in Russia : 07/03/1962
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
Comedy. The scene is laid in the 60s at an integrated logging-lumbering enterprise in the Urals. Tosya Kislitsina came to that enterprise to work as a cook. The darling of all women’s hearts logger Ilya made a bet that Tosya would fall in love with him. Having learnt about that Tosya broke off with him, and Ilya to his surprise realized that he really loved that battlesome and laughsome girl.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

commentaries
Dix grands films soviétiques sortis dans les années 1960, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
La comédie soviétique Les Filles projetée à Paris à l’occasion de la Journée des femmes, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Top-14 des comédies soviétiques intemporelles à regarder en ligne avec des sous-titres, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Le cinéma du Dégel : Les Filles(Devchata) de Youri Tchoulioukine /Yuri Chulyukin, Yelena KVASOVA-DUFFORT, kinoglaz.fr, 2006
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2015
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009

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