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''The Wedding'' (russian: Свадьба, Svadba) is a 1944 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
Isidor Annensky Isidor Markovich Annensky (russian: Исидор Маркович Анненский; 13 March 1906 - 2 May 1977) was a Soviet screenwriter and film director. Annensky was named Merited Artist of the RSFSR in 1971. Life and career Annensky studie ...
. «История одной „Свадьбы“» на сайте телеканала «Культура»
/ref> The film, created by the eponymous vaudeville of Anton Chekhov, the stories of ''The Wedding with General'', ''Before the wedding'', the novel in two parts of the ''Marriage of convenience'' skit ''Bride and papa'' is a caustic satire on the mores of the middle class philistine pre-revolutionary Russia. «История одной „Свадьбы“» на сайте телеканала «Культура»
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Plot

The burgess Zhigalov family who have a marriageable daughter Dasha, learn to their horror that the official Aplombov (Erast Garin) who dined with them every day and established himself as a groom, is not going to marry her at all. With great difficulty Dasha's father manages to persuade the ambitious groom to propose. The groom agrees, putting the condition of compulsory attendance of the General at the wedding. And then finally the wedding takes place. At the festive moment the chief guest has arrived—the General. A scandal erupts at the peak of merriment when it became clear that the General is not really General, but only the captain of the second rank (lieutenant colonel). The wedding is ruined.


Cast

* Alexey Gribov as Evdokim Zhigalov, father of the bride «История одной „Свадьбы“» на сайте телеканала «Культура»
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Faina Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for ...
as Nastassja Timofeevna Zhigalova, mother of the bride *
Erast Garin Erast Pavlovich Garin (russian: Эра́ст Па́влович Га́рин; – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic ...
as Epaminondas Maksimovic aplomb groom *
Zoya Fyodorova Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. ...
as Dasha, bride * Nikolay Konovalov as Fedor Yakovlevich Revunov-Karaulov, the captain of the 2nd rank in retirement *
Mikhail Yanshin Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (20 October 1902 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor. Biography Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kalug ...
as Andrei Nyunin, the agent of the insurance company *
Sergey Martinson Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мартинсон; – 2 September 1984) was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. He became People's Artist of t ...
as Ivan Mikhailovich Yat, telegraph *
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 Anna Martynovna Zmeyukina, midwife * Osip Abdulov as Harlampi Spiridonovich Dymba, confectioner *
Lev Sverdlin Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 - 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1936 to 1969. Filmography References External links * * ...
as grinder *
Tatyana Pelttser Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser (russian: Татья́на Ива́новна Пе́льтцер; german: Tatjana Peltzer; June 6, 1904 in Moscow – July 16, 1992 in Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of t ...
as doctor's wife *
Irina Murzaeva Irina Vsevolodovna Murzaeva (russian: Ири́на Все́володовна Мурза́ева; May 15, 1906 — January 3, 1988) was a Soviet actress of theater and cinema. Biography She graduated from the Lunacharsky Theater College (192 ...
as guest *
Mikhail Pugovkin Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; July 13, 1923, Rameshki, Chukhlomsky District of Kostroma Oblast — July 25, 2008, Moscow) (aged 85) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a Peopl ...
as guest


See also

* ''The Wedding'' (Chekhov play)


References


External links

* * 1944 films Films based on works by Anton Chekhov Kartuli Pilmi films Mosfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Films about social class Films about weddings Films set in the Russian Empire Films shot in Moscow Soviet romantic comedy films 1944 romantic comedy films Russian romantic comedy films Russian black-and-white films 1940s Russian-language films {{1940s-USSR-film-stub