''A Big Family'' (russian: Больша́я семья́,

translit. Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus '' trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or ...

Bolshaya semya) is a 1954 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits. It was entered into the

1955 Cannes Film Festival The 8th Cannes Film Festival was held from 26 April to 10 May 1955. The Golden Palm went to the US film '' Marty'' by Delbert Mann. The festival opened with '' Du rififi chez les hommes'' by Jules Dassin and closed with ''Carmen Jones'' by Otto Pr ...

. It was based on Vsevolod Kochetov's novel ''Zhurbiny''.

Cast

Sergei Lukyanov Sergei Vladimirovich Lukyanov (russian: Сергей Владимирович Лукья́нов; 27 September 1910 — 1 March 1965) was a Soviet film and theater actor. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1952) and the winner of two Stalin Pr ...

as Matvei Zhurbin * Boris Andreyev as Ilya Matveyevich Zhurbin *

Vera Kuznetsova Vera Andreevna Kuznetsova (russian: Вера Андреевна Кузнецова; 6 October 1907 — 11 December 1994) was a Russian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1944 to 1991. Selected filmography References Extern ...

as Agafya Karpovna Zhurbina *

Aleksey Batalov Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...

as Aleksei Zhurbin *

Sergei Kurilov Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and h ...

as Victor Zhurbin * Vadim Medvedev as Anton Zhurbin *

Boris Bityukov Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

as Kostya Zhurbin * Iya Arepina as Tanya Zhurbina * Klara Luchko as Lida Zhurbina * Ekaterina Savinova as Dunyasha Zhurbina *

Pavel Kadochnikov Pavel Petrovich Kadochnikov (russian: Павел Петрович Кадочников; – 2 May 1988) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1979) and Hero of Socialist Labour ...

as Skobelev *

Elena Dobronravova Elena Borisovna Dobronravova (russian: Елена Борисовна Добронра́вова; 21 July 1932 – 24 January 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actress. Born July 21, 1932 in Moscow in the family of artists of the Moscow Art Theatre Bo ...

as Katya Travnikova *

Nikolai Gritsenko Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko (russian: Николай Олимпиевич Гриценко, uk, Микола Олімпійович Гриценко; 24 July 1912 – 8 December 1979) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He ap ...

as Club Manager * Nikolai Sergeyev as Basmanov *

Larisa Kronberg Larisa Ivanovna Kronberg (also known as Larisa Kronberg-Sobolevskaya and Larisa Sobolevskaya, russian: Лариса Ивановна Кронберг; May 23, 1929 – April 23, 2017) was a Soviet Russian actress and a KGB agent. Biography K ...

as Zinaida Ivanova

Accolades

* 1955 –

– Special prize for best acting ensemble.

References

External links

* 1954 films 1950s Russian-language films 1954 drama films Films directed by Iosif Kheifits Lenfilm films Soviet drama films {{1950s-drama-film-stub