Arinka
About Arinka
Arinka lives next to the railroad. She comes on a ring of spies who are preparing an attack. The rest of the comedy is her trying to stop them.
Cast & crew
More about Arinka
Nadezhda Kosheverova and Yuri Muzykant directed. Semen Polotsky and Matvey Tevelev wrote the script. Lenfilm released the film in 1939. Larisa Yemelyantseva plays Arinka. Pavel Sukhanov, Mariya Barabanova, Sergei Filippov, and Nikolai Konovalov are in the cast. The running time is 82 minutes.
Themes
Background
Late-1930s Soviet comedies often put sabotage next to a joke. This one sets the spies on the tracks and gives the discovery to a girl who lives there.
Making
Lenfilm paired two directors on a railroad comedy about a girl who stumbles into a sabotage plot.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The Russian title is Arinka.
- Kosheverova and Muzykant share the direction.
- Sergei Filippov, later a regular comic heavy, is in the spy group.
- The setting is the railroad rather than a city street.
- Barabanova, a Lenfilm comic lead of the late 1930s, appears alongside Yemelyantseva.
Scenes
- Arinka finds the group working along the line.
- She identifies them as spies before the attack.
