Jubilee
About Jubilee
The town commercial bank is preparing its fifteenth anniversary. Chairman Shipuchin means to read a report to the depositors. The irritable old bookkeeper Kuzma Khirin, suffering from a heavy cold, is the one writing it. The fuss is interrupted by Shipuchin's talkative wife, Tatyana Alekseyevna, and then by old Mrs. Merchutkina, wife of a retired provincial secretary, who comes to beg back money taken out of her husband's pay. The interruptions leave Shipuchin with a nervous collapse, and the celebration is put off.
Cast & crew
More about Jubilee
Vladimir Petrov wrote the script and directed this short from Anton Chekhov's one-act joke The Jubilee. Mosfilm made it. It opened on 14 July 1944. Vladimir Yakovlev photographed it. Nikolay Kryukov wrote the music. Wikidata also lists Belarusfilm. A second credit list names the company Soviet Belarus. Viktor Stanitsyn plays Shipuchin, Vasiliy Toporkov plays Khirin, Olga Androvskaya plays Tatyana Alekseyevna, and Anastasiya Zuyeva plays Merchutkina.
Themes
Look
Vladimir Yakovlev was the cinematographer.
Music
Nikolay Kryukov wrote the score.
Notes
- Sergei Blinnikov plays the doorman. Vladimir Gribkov plays a board member. Sergey Tsenin plays a general. Lyudmila Semyonova plays a chanteuse.
- The play is a one-act. The film runs 38 minutes.
- The setting is a commercial bank in the Russian Empire, filmed in 1944.
Scenes
- Khirin, hoarse with a cold, tries to draft Shipuchin's anniversary speech.
- Mrs. Merchutkina plants herself in the office and asks for the money docked from her husband's pay.
- Shipuchin collapses, and the jubilee is postponed.
Influenced by
- Anton Chekhov's one-act The Jubilee
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1944 Юбилей.webm)
