Four Hearts
About Four Hearts
A regiment of tankers is quartered in a dacha settlement outside Moscow. Mathematics lecturer Galina Murashova goes there to teach the soldiers. Her younger sister Shurochka, a careless student, goes to cram for a re-examination. Galina is strict. Shurochka is not. They cross paths with First Lieutenant Pyotr Kolchin, who is organizing the classes, and with clumsy biologist Gleb Zavartsev. Quarrels, wrong guesses, and songs run through the summer until the four sort themselves into couples.
Cast & crew
More about Four Hearts
Konstantin Yudin directed Aleksei Fayko and Anatoli Granberg's script for producer P. Pashkov. The Mosfilm artistic council accepted the film on 20 February 1941, and cutting was finished on the eve of the German invasion. Wikidata lists public dates of 28 December 1944, 5 January 1945, and 5 October 1945. Nikolai Vlasov photographed it. Yuri Milyutin wrote the songs.
Themes
Background
The story is set in the last prewar summer, with a tanker unit at the Yuryev camps beside a dacha village. Audiences did not see it until December 1944.
Making
Yudin finished the comedy just before the invasion. It stayed off screens until the end of 1944.
Look
Nikolai Vlasov shot the dacha comedy in black and white.
Music
Yuri Milyutin wrote the songs and the score.
Preservation
The film survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Valentina Serova plays Galina Sergeyevna Murashova. Lyudmila Tselikovskaya plays Alexandra 'Shura' Murashova.
- Yevgeny Samoylov plays First Lieutenant Pyotr Nikitich Kolchin. Pavel Shpringfeld plays Gleb Zavartsev.
- Lyubov Dmitriyevskaya plays their mother, Antonia Vasiliyevna. Irina Murzaeva plays the manicurist Tamara Spiridonovna.
- Andrey Tutyshkin plays Professor Arkadi Yershov.
- The Russian title is Сердца четырёх. English Wikipedia lists the running time as 94 minutes; Wikidata lists 80.
Scenes
- Galina drills the tankers in mathematics at the dacha.
- Shurochka's cramming collides with her sister's classes.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1941 Сердца четырёх.webm)
