A Noisy Household

1946 WarComedy 85 minutes Directed by Mikhail Zharov

About A Noisy Household

An army squad is posted to guard a fake airfield during the war. The comedy is the work of keeping the decoy looking real.

Cast & crew

More about A Noisy Household

Mikhail Zharov directed it and acts in it. Leonid Tur and Pyotr Tur wrote it. Valentin Pavlov photographed it. Yury Milyutin wrote the music. Mosfilm released it on 15 May 1946. It runs 85 minutes. Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Alexander Grave, Vitali Doronin, and Yury Lyubimov are billed.

Themes

  • A dummy airfield
  • A squad on guard
  • Wartime comedy
  • Mikhail Zharov
  • fake airfield
  • Mosfilm
  • Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

Look

Valentin Pavlov photographed the decoy airfield and the squad.

Music

Yury Milyutin wrote the music.

Notes

  • The Russian title is Беспокойное хозяйство.
  • Zharov is both director and a player.
  • The field is a fake, built to draw enemy attention.

Scenes

  • The squad keeps the dummy field in working order.
  • The joke is how much noise a fake airport can make.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1946. Беспокойное хозяйство.webm)