Anna
About Anna
In 1932 the Siberian Pavel Kuganov comes to a Moscow factory, becomes a shock worker, and marries the best worker, Anna Kulikova. She does not know he is carrying out orders for a spy center. He takes her party card and passes it to an anti-communist group. She is expelled. Yasha, who had wanted to marry her and had gone to Siberia when she refused, comes back. They show that Pavel is a kulak who killed a collective-farm leader.
Cast & crew
More about Anna
Ivan Pyryev directed. The released title is Party Membership Card (Partiinyi bilet). Yekaterina Vinogradskaya wrote the original piece, called Anka or Anna. Pyryev added the spy and wrecker plot; in her draft Pavel was neither. Aleksei Solodkov photographed, with Timofey Lebeshev as second cameraman. Valery Zhelobinsky wrote the music. Mosfilm. Released 7 April 1936. Runtime 108 minutes. The catalog title Anna is the earlier name of the script.
Themes
Background
The plot turns on a 1932 party card handed to an underground group, and on the expulsion that follows.
Making
Vinogradskaya's script was a factory story. Pyryev rewrote Pavel as a saboteur so the lost party card would be the crime.
Look
Aleksei Solodkov photographed it. Timofey Lebeshev was the second cameraman.
Music
Valery Zhelobinsky wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons under the release title Party Membership Card.
Notes
- Ada Voytsik plays Anna Kulikova. Andrei Abrikosov plays Pavel Kuganov. Igor Maleyev plays Yasha. Anatoli Goryunov plays Fyodor Ivanovich.
- The Commons file is titled 1936 Партийный билет.webm, the release title.
- Russian Wikipedia marks the spy-center sentence as unsourced. The catalog overview and later accounts both use it.
Scenes
- Pavel, praised after a factory fire that was his own sabotage, marries Anna.
- He gives her party card to the underground. She is expelled.
Influenced by
- Yekaterina Vinogradskaya's story Anka, rewritten by Pyryev
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1936 Партийный билет.webm)
