''Don Diego and Pelagia'' (russian: Дон Диего и Пелагея, Don Diego i Pelageya) is a 1928 Soviet silent

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directed by

Yakov Protazanov Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of ...

.Christie & Taylor p.428 The film's

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was by Sergei Kozlovsky.

Plot

The stationmaster of a small railway station, Yakov Ivanovich Golovach, is obsessed with reading historical novels about knights. Fancying himself as the hero of one book – Don Diego - he loves to fight with an imaginary opponent. He is caught in the act by the female residents of the surrounding villages who came to the station to meet the arriving mail train, in order to sell foodstuffs. The laughter of the peasant women makes Yakov Ivanovich furious. In a rage, he orders the detention of violators of the railway rules who are crossing the railway line. But he only manages to catch the dawdling old woman Pelageya Diomina ...

Cast

* Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Pelageya Diomina * Anatoliy Bykov as 'Don Diego', station master * Vladimir Mikhaylov as Pelageya's husband * I. Levkoyeva as Natasha, member Komsomol * Ivan Yudin as Misha, cell secretary Komsomol * Vladimir Popov as Miroshka, guard Volispolkom * Daniil Vvedenskiy as Night watcher *

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as Uchraspred *

Mikhail Zharov Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Жа́ров; 27 October 1899 – 15 December 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour ...

as himself * B. Gusiev as Militia man *

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as Pope's Wife *

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as Bureaucrat *

Sergei Tsenin Sergei Sergeyevich Tsenin (russian: link=no, Сергей Сергеевич Ценин) was a Soviet and Russian actor and director. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1935). Selected filmography * 1930 — '' St. Jorgen's Day'' *1936 — '' Party ...

as Bureaucrat *

Osip Brik Osip Maksimovich Brik (russian: link=no, Óсип Макси́мович Брик) (16 January 1888 – 22 February 1945), was a Russian avant garde writer and literary critic, who was one of the most important members of the Russian formali ...

as Bureaucrat * Nikolay Ivakin as Cooperative Shop Employee *

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as Postman's Guest *

Vera Maretskaya Vera Petrovna Maretskaya ( Russian: Вера Петровна Марецкая) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1976). Early years Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was bo ...

as Girl in trial *

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as Woman in Jail * Andrei Gorchilin * Chuveliov

References

Bibliography

* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.

External links

* 1928 films 1928 comedy-drama films Soviet comedy-drama films Russian comedy-drama films Soviet silent films 1920s Russian-language films Films directed by Yakov Protazanov Soviet black-and-white films Russian black-and-white films Silent comedy-drama films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub