''A Girl with Character'' (russian: Девушка с характером, Devushka s kharakterom) is a 1939 Soviet

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Konstantin Yudin Konstantin Konstantinovich Yudin (russian: Константи́н Константи́нович Ю́дин) (1896–1957) was a Soviet Union, Soviet film director. Biography Born in the Semyonovskoe village near Dmitrov (now Dmitrovsky Distric ...

. The film featured acting debuts of

Mikhail Gluzsky Mikhail Andreyevich Gluzsky (russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Глу́зский; 20 November 1918 – 15 June 2001) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He starred in the 1972 film, ''Monologue'', which was entered ...

and Anatoly Solovyov.

Plot

The best farm worker Katya Ivanova travels to the district center, in search of truth and the possibility of punishing the director-bureaucrat Meshkov, who collapsed the once prosperous work in the

Far East The ''Far East'' was a European term to refer to the geographical regions that includes East and Southeast Asia as well as the Russian Far East to a lesser extent. South Asia is sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons. The ter ...

animal-breeding

sovkhoz A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, abbreviated from ''советское хозяйство'', "sovetskoye khozyaystvo (sovkhoz)"; ) was a form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union. It is usually contrasted wit ...

. On the way to the station, Katya manages to catch and pass over a saboteur to the border guards. She then rides the train without a ticket to write a complaint, which means that she has to work as a waitress in the dining car on the way to

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

. On the train, Katya meets a sailor Sergei, but upon arrival in Moscow they lose each other. Katya is employed as a saleswoman in a fur shop and after that at a factory of gramophone records. At the same time she actively convinces female work colleagues to go to the Far East. For a long time Sergei looks for Katya and he finally finds her. Meanwhile Katya's complaint is examined. She is appointed as the new director of the farm, instead of the dismissed Meshkov. Katya and her friend Sergei go to the Far East.

Cast

* Valentina Serova as Katya Ivanova, worker of the Far-East animal-breeding

* Emma Tsesarskaya as Ekaterina Ivanova, wife of the commander *Andrei Tutyshkin as Sergei Beryozkin, sailor *

Pavel Olenev Pavel Olenev (russian: link=no, Павел Алексеевич Оленев; 1898 – 1964) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He died on January 19, 1964, in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR, and was buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery Vagankovo Cemetery (r ...

as Bobrik, director of the fur store *Pyotr Repnin as Tsvetkov, director of the gramophone record factory *

Vsevolod Sanayev Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (Все′волод Васи′льевич Сана′ев; 25 2, o.s.February 1912 in Tula, Russian Empire – 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanay ...

as Surkov, lieutenant of the militsiya * Aleksandr Antonov as Mehkov, director of the animal-breeding

*Aleksandr Zhukov as train conductor *

Sergei Blinnikov Sergei Blinnikov (russian: Серге́й Капито́нович Бли́нников) was a Soviet actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1963),

as manager of the dining car * Karandash as waiter *

as border patrol officer *Anatoly Solovyev as red army officer *Nikolai Arskiy as employee of the commissariat *Vladimir Dorofeev as huntsman *Nikita Kondratyev as photojournalist *

Galina Kravchenko Galina Sergeevna Kravchenko (Russian: Галина Сергеевна Кравченко; 11 February 19055 March 1996) was a Soviet actress. Biography Galina Kravchenko was born on 11 February 1905 in Kazan, Russian Empire (now Kazan, Tatarsta ...

as mother of a lost child *Ivan Lobyzovskiy as komsomol leader of the gramophone factory *Iona Biy-Brodskiy as the lover of beer in the dining car

Interesting Facts

*Filming of one scene took place on the Kratovskaya children's railway. *The film marks the first appearance of the famous song "To the Far East" (music by the Pokrass brothers, lyrics by Eugene Dolmatovski) by Emma Tsesarskaya and Valentin Serov. The tune "Brown Buttons" was based on the themes of this song.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Girl with a Temper Films directed by Konstantin Yudin Soviet comedy films 1939 comedy films 1939 films Soviet black-and-white films 1930s Russian-language films