Bountiful Summer (Russian: Щедрое лето, romanized: Shchedroe leto) is a 1951 Soviet musical comedy drama film directed by Boris Barnet and starring Nina Arkhipova, Nikolay Kryuchkov and Viktor Dobrovolsky. The film is set on a collective farm in Ukraine.
| Bountiful Summer | |
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| Directed by | Boris Barnet |
| Written by | Nikolai Dalyokij Evgeniy Pomeshchikov |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Aleksei Mishurin |
| Edited by | Nadezhda Ratmanskaya |
| Music by | German Zhukovsky |
Production company | |
Release date | 8 March 1951 |
Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
It was shot at the Kiev Film Studio in 1950, but released the following year.[1] It was also released in America the same year in a subtitled version by Artkino Pictures. The film was shot using a version of the sovcolor process.
Cast edit
- Nina Arkhipova as Vera Groshko
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Nazar Protsenko
- Viktor Dobrovolsky as Ruban
- Marina Bebutova as Oksana Podpruzhenko
- Anton Dunajsky as Prokopchuk
- Georgi Gumilevsky as Musi Antonovich
- Alla Kazanskaya as Zoological technician
- Muza Krepkogorskaya as Darka
- Mikhail Kuznetsov as Peter Sereda
- Vera Kuznetsova as Ekaterina Matveievna
- Yelena Maksimova as Kolodchka
- Konstantin Sorokin as Teslyuk
- Mikhail Vysotsky as Podpruzhenko
- Zoya Tolbuzina as Vera
References edit
- ^ Kenez p.250
Bibliography edit
- Peter Kenez. Cinema and Soviet Society: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin. I.B.Tauris, 2001.
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