Galya
About Galya
During the Soviet-Finnish war, the Leningrad sculptor Nikonov is called up while he is still working on a statue of a Red Army soldier. His daughter Galya takes over the house, looks after her grandmother, and finishes the sculpture.
Cast & crew
More about Galya
Nadezhda Kosheverova directed, her second film after Arinka (1939). Sergei Glagolin wrote the screenplay. Afanasy Simonovsky designed it. Lenfilm finished it in 1940 and it was not released. The story is set in Leningrad.
Themes
Background
It was made during and about the Winter War of 1939–1940. The ban treated a child's housework as the wrong image of the Soviet rear.
Making
Kosheverova finished the short at Lenfilm. A Central Committee commission then kept it off screens.
Look
Apollinary Dudko photographed the Leningrad settings.
Music
Nikita Bogoslovsky wrote the music.
Preservation
Finished in 1940 and not released. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Yevgeniya Vdovina plays Galya. Pyotr Kirillov plays the sculptor Nikonov.
- Also cast: Mariya Barabanova, Aleksey Bondi, Galina Ivanovskaya, and Anatoly Kuznetsov.
- A 1940 list of pictures finished and then stopped says it was withheld for the low ideological and artistic quality of the script and the direction.
- D. A. Polikarpov, deputy head of the agitation and propaganda directorate of the Central Committee, recorded that a Party commission banned it for a wrong picture of the home front in the war with the White Finns: a sculptor's little daughter becomes mistress of the house and works past her strength to keep her grandmother.
Scenes
- Nikonov leaves an unfinished statue of a Red Army man when he is called up.
- Galya works on the sculpture and keeps the house for her grandmother.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1940. Галя.webm)
