Don Diego and Pelagia
Directed byYakov Protazanov
Written byVasili Lokot
CinematographyYevgeni Alekseyev
Production
company
Release date
24 February 1928
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent
Russian intertitles

Don Diego and Pelagia (Russian: Дон Диего и Пелагея, romanized: Don Diego i Pelageya) is a 1928 Soviet silent comedy drama directed by Yakov Protazanov.[1][2]

The film's art direction was by Sergei Kozlovsky.

Plot

The stationmaster of a small railway station, Yakov Ivanovich Golovach, is obsessed with reading historical novels about knights. Fancying himself as the hero of one book – Don Diego - he loves to fight with an imaginary opponent. He is caught in the act by the female residents of the surrounding villages who came to the station to meet the arriving mail train, in order to sell foodstuffs.

The laughter of the peasant women makes Yakov Ivanovich furious. In a rage, he orders the detention of violators of the railway rules who are crossing the railway line. But he only manages to catch the dawdling old woman Pelageya Diomina ...

Cast

  • Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Pelageya Diomina
  • Anatoliy Bykov as 'Don Diego', station master
  • Vladimir Mikhaylov as Pelageya's husband
  • I. Levkoyeva as Natasha, member Komsomol
  • Ivan Yudin as Misha, cell secretary Komsomol
  • Vladimir Popov as Miroshka, guard Volispolkom
  • Daniil Vvedenskiy as Night watcher
  • Aleksandr Gromov as Uchraspred
  • Mikhail Zharov as himself
  • B. Gusiev as Militia man
  • Yelena Tyapkina as Pope's Wife
  • Ivan Pelttser as Bureaucrat
  • Sergei Tsenin as Bureaucrat
  • Osip Brik as Bureaucrat
  • Nikolay Ivakin as Cooperative Shop Employee
  • Lev Fenin as Postman's Guest
  • Vera Maretskaya as Girl in trial
  • Sofya Levitina as Woman in Jail
  • Andrei Gorchilin
  • Chuveliov

References

  1. ↑ Christie & Taylor p.428
  2. ↑ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 240.

Bibliography

  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.


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