Tractor Driver 2 is an absurd tragicomedy directed by Gleb and Igor Aleynikov, based on
Renata Litvinova
Renata Muratovna Litvinova (russian: Рената Муратовна Литвинова; born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter.
Biography
Litvinova was born in Moscow to Volga Tatar father Murat Aminovic ...
's script. The plot is loosely based on famous Soviet films in the manner of "
Socialist realism
Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is ch ...
": ''
Tractor Drivers'', ''
Wedding in Malinovka
''Wedding in Malinovka'' (russian: Свадьба в Малиновке, ''Svadba v Malinovke'') is a 1967 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Andrei Tutyshkin based on an operetta by Boris Aleksandrov adapted by Leonid Yukhvid.
The film is ...
'' (where one of the main characters, Nazar Duma, is namesake to a character from the previous film), and ''
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed''.
Plot
Klim Yarko, a former tank driver, wants to find a peaceful job as a tractor driver. He falls in love with Maryana Bazhan and begins working in a successful collective farm, whose director is Maryana's father. However, he has a rival, Nazar Duma, a tractor driver in his 40s. On the other hand, the neighboring farm is getting bankrupt, and its youth creates a gang and terrorizes the farm where Klim works. The competition between two farms results in a bloody feud.
Cast
* Yevgueni Kondratyev — Klim Yarko, tractor driver
* Larisa Borodina — Maryana Bazhan, master of speed plowing
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Aleksandr Belyavsky — Nazar Duma
*
Anatoly Kuznetsov — Kirill Petrovich, director of the collective farm
*
Boris Yukhananov
Boris Yukhananov (russian: Борис Юрьевич Юхананов; born 30 September 1957) is a Russian director of theatre, video, cinema and TV, a theatre educator and theorist. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Stanislavsky Elect ...
— gang boss
* Yury Vnukov — hairstylist
* Irina Cherichenko — Franya
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Larisa Luzhina — Markovna
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0197056
Tractor Drivers 2: a review of the film in English
1992 films
1990s avant-garde and experimental films
1992 comedy films
Russian comedy films
1990s Russian-language films
Russian avant-garde and experimental films