They Met in Moscow (russian: Свинарка и пастух, Svinarka i pastukh, en, Swine-herd and Stableman) is a 1941 Soviet

romantic musical film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

directed by

Ivan Pyryev Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stali ...

Plot

Swineherd Glasha and stableman Kuzma from a farm in what is now the

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of Russia are sent to an agricultural exhibition in

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 million ...

. Kuzma is popular among the girls there, and makes passes at Glasha, but is not too bright, and thinks only of Moscow shops. Glasha, at the behest of her grandmother, carefully studies the know-how of other swine-breeders. By chance she meets at the exhibition a

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shepherd Musaib from an

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, and they end up falling in love with each other. They agree to meet at the Union Agricultural Exhibition again in a year. As Glasha returns to the farm she seeks to build a new pigsty, she takes care of the swine and invents a feeder for piglets. Kuzma just keeps strolling through the village with an accordion and being a nuisance to Glasha. Musaib with his dog encounters three wolves and scrambles to protect the best sheep of the flock. Musaib sends letters to Glasha. But no one can read them. Kuzma is called to help and gives Glasha a fake, in which it is written that Musaib is a married man. Kuzma comforts the unhappy Glasha. Their wedding is scheduled for

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. At the next year All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, Musaib learns about Glasha's wedding and goes to her village. Just in time he manages to come before the wedding and explains everything to Glasha. She banishes Kuzma in a scandal.

Cast

Marina Ladynina Marina Alekseyevna Ladynina (russian: Мари́на Алексе́евна Лады́нина; June 24 .s. 11 1908 in Skotinino, Smolensk, Russian Empire – March 10, 2003 in Moscow, Russian Federation) was a popular Soviet film and theatre ...

- Glafira Andreyevna "Glasha" Novikova *

Vladimir Zeldin Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin (russian: Владимир Михайлович Зельдин; 10 February 1915 – 31 October 2016) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. A centenarian, he was among the longest-serving stage performers an ...

- Musahib Gatuyev *

Nikolai Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993. Selected fi ...

- Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov * Nasyr Kitayev as Ivan Ivanovich, aka Uncle Vanya (as N. Kitayev) * Grigori Alekseyev as Abdusalam (as G. Alekseyev) * Ye. Schastlivtseva as Glasha's Grandmother *

Osip Abdulov Osip Naumovich Abdulov (russian: Осип Наумович Абдулов; in Łódź – 14 June 1953 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor. Biography Osip Naumovich Abdulov was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empi ...

as Bartender * Tikhon Khrennikov * Tatyana Govorkova as Collective Farmer (uncredited) * Zoya Zhukova as Glasha's friend (uncredited)

Interesting facts

*Geographically minor settlements in which the events of the picture unfold, are here to this very day.

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*The first significant film role of actor Vladimir Zeldin. He got his in the film by chance. For the role of the shepherd from the North Caucasus Musaib Gatuev many Georgian actors auditioned alongside Vladimir. Pyryev could not decide whom to pick. Then he gathered the female crewmembers in the screening room and showed them the

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s. And almost unanimously, women chose Zeldin. *Expedition to Kabardino-Balkaria was completed on June 22, 1941. After the start of

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actors were mobilized and sent to the tank school. But after a while all of the men involved in the film, on Stalin's orders were returned to "Mosfilm". Scenes were filmed at the Agricultural Exhibition in two shifts. It often happened that began raids by German aircraft, bombing, sirens wailing while filming. The crew went to the bomb shelter and then after the bombing returned to work. Filming ended in evacuation at

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. *On TV even today the film is shown with cuts made back in the day of the fight against the attributes of

Stalin's cult of personality Joseph Stalin's cult of personality became a prominent feature of Soviet popular culture in 1929, after a lavish celebration of his purported 50th birthday. For the rest of Stalin's rule, the Soviet press presented Stalin as an all-powerful, ...

: from the opening credits the mention of director Pyrev is withdrawn because in the credits the phrase "Stalin's order bearer" was added to his name, and there is no frame with Stalin's statue at the Agricultural Exhibition. The full version of the picture was recorded on videotape film union "Close-Up" in the "Russian Film Classics" series. *There is a legend based on the memoirs of Yaroslav Golovanov that the film was on the

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at the time of the first Moon landing of the

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module ''Eagle'' on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, an ...

crew, when more than 1 billion people in the rest of the world were watching the live broadcast from the Moon. However, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Moscow time, the Central Television of the USSR did not air programs; in 1969 programs on CT only started at 8am.

References

External links

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