Helen and Grapes
About Helen and Grapes
Pioneers spend the holiday at a southern vineyard sovkhoz, fighting birds and insects that attack a fast-ripening grape. The worst thief is a person, not a pest. Lenochka and her friends track him. He is the cook, Uncle Petya, disguised as the sovkhoz coachman. Yanina Zheymo plays Lenochka. Boris Chirkov plays the coachman the cook is impersonating.
Cast & crew
More about Helen and Grapes
Antonina Kudryavtseva directed. Yevgeny Shvarts and Nikolai Oleynikov wrote the script. Pavel Posypkin and Mikhail Rotinov photographed. Nikolai Strelnikov is the composer on the main credit. David Geygner is also named in some lists. The film is a sound sequel to the silent Razbudite Lenochku. It runs 50 minutes.
Themes
Making
Kudryavtseva shoots a children's comedy on a working vineyard set, with the thief hidden inside the staff.
Look
Pavel Posypkin and Mikhail Rotinov shot the sovkhoz and the chase after the grape thief.
Music
Nikolai Strelnikov is credited with the score. David Geygner is named alongside him in some filmographies.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Pyotr Gofman plays Uncle Petya, the cook. Alexander Kurkov plays the teacher Boris Roshchin.
- A reference book places the sovkhoz in Crimea. The Russian synopsis says only the south.
- Chirkov's coachman is the disguise the cook uses, not a second thief.
- Inna Fyodorova is in the cast.
- The Russian title is Lenochka i vinograd.
Scenes
- The children hunt birds and insects and still lose grapes.
- Lenochka follows the thief to the coachman's disguise.
- The cook, Uncle Petya, is the man under the clothes.
Influenced by
- The silent film Razbudite Lenochku
