Antosha Rybkin
About Antosha Rybkin
A Soviet unit needs a distraction before it attacks a village the Germans hold. The front-line concert brigade will perform. Cook Antosha Rybkin is cast as a German corporal. In the enemy uniform he walks into the German rear, and the information and the confusion he brings back help his own side take the village.
Cast & crew
More about Antosha Rybkin
Konstantin Yudin directed. Anatoly Granberg wrote the script. Boris Petrov photographed. Oscar Sandler and Yury Milyutin composed the music. Oleksandr Horsky produced. Boris Chirkov plays Antosha. Marina Ladynina, Vladimir Gribkov, Konstantin Sorokin, and Nikolai Kryuchkov are in the cast. The release date is December 31, 1942.
Themes
Background
Released on the last day of 1942, the short treats a village fight as a farce about a cook in the wrong uniform.
Making
Yudin shoots the concert and the walk through the German rear as comedy business, with Chirkov in a captured uniform doing most of the work.
Look
Boris Petrov shot the brigade's show and Rybkin's walk through the German positions.
Music
Oscar Sandler and Yury Milyutin wrote the songs and score for the front-line concert that covers the raid.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The Russian title is Antosha Rybkin.
- Rybkin is a cook first and a fake corporal second. The concert brigade is the cover for getting him into the uniform.
- The film runs under an hour, a wartime comedy rather than a full battle picture.
- Sandler also scored Actress, another 1943-season wartime comedy with a musical cover story.
- Chirkov, already known as Maxim in the Kozintsev and Trauberg trilogy, plays the cook.
Scenes
- The commander assigns the cook the role of a German corporal.
- Rybkin, in the enemy uniform, moves through the German rear.
- His own side takes the village once the distraction has worked.
