Doktor Kalyuzhnyy
About Doktor Kalyuzhnyy
After the Leningrad medical institute, Kuzma Kalyuzhny leaves Lena in the city and goes back to the settlement of Grechishki. The hospital is a wreck. He keeps working and makes a discovery that restores the sight of his old teacher, Grigory Ivanovich Parkhomenko, and of Olga, Lena's blind sister.
Cast & crew
More about Doktor Kalyuzhnyy
Erast Garin and Khesya Lokshina directed at Lenfilm. Yuri German wrote the script from his play Son of the People. Anatoli Pogorely and Aleksandr Sigaev photographed it. Pavel Armand wrote the music.
Background
A 1939 Lenfilm drama about a doctor who chooses a village hospital over a city practice.
Making
Garin, better known as an actor, shared the direction with Khesya Lokshina.
Look
Anatoli Pogorely and Aleksandr Sigaev shared the photography.
Music
Pavel Armand wrote the music.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Boris Tolmazov plays Dr. Kuzma Kalyuzhny.
- Mariya Barabanova plays the groom Evgraf Timofeyevich, a man who is always sick.
- Yuri Tolubeyev plays the teacher Parkhomenko, and Yanina Zheymo plays Olga.
- Arkady Raikin plays Monya Shapiro, a newly graduated doctor.
- Yekaterina Melentyeva plays Frosya.
Scenes
- Kalyuzhny finds the Grechishki hospital in ruins.
- His treatment brings back the sight of Parkhomenko and of Olga.
Influenced by
- Son of the People (Yuri German play)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1939. Доктор Калюжный.webm)
