Accordion

Name: Accordion
Director: Ihor Savchenko
Genre: Comedy, Music
Released: 1934
Duration: 1 h 6 min
Cast: Zoya Fyodorova, Pyotr Savin, Ihor Savchenko, Nikolay Gorlov, Nikolai Yarochkin

1934 Comedy Music 66 minutes Directed by Ihor Savchenko

About Accordion

Country boy Timosha puts his accordion away after he is made leader of the local Komsomol. He has to answer the sad songs of a player called Tosklivy, or Mournful. He takes the instrument up again and draws the other young people in with faster songs.

Cast & crew

More about Accordion

Igor Savchenko directed and wrote it from a poem by Aleksandr Zharov. Mezhrabpom-Film released it on 19 June 1934. A musical comedy about how a mass song gets written.

Themes

a Komsomol leader who gives up his accordion
a contest with a kulak song
the instrument taken up again
accordion
Komsomol
kulak
mass song
Mezhrabpom-Film

Making

Savchenko staged Zharov's poem as a village musical.

Look

Yuly Fogelman and Yevgeni Shneider photographed it.

Music

Sergei Pototsky wrote the music.

Notes

Pyotr Savin plays Timosha. Zoya Fyodorova is in the cast. Savchenko also appears.
Nikolay Gorlov, Nikolai Yarochkin, and Nikolai Zyryanov are also credited.
The rival is Tosklivy, Mournful, and his songs are the kulak ones Timosha has to beat.

Scenes

Timosha stops playing after he is chosen Komsomol leader.
He picks the accordion up again and the young people gather around the faster songs.

Influenced by

Aleksandr Zharov's poem Garmon

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (1934 Гармонь.webm)