Nightingale
About Nightingale
At a porcelain factory in pre-revolutionary Russia, workers riot. After one shop burns, Grunya Kornakova's father dies in the fire. The owner set it so he could fine the workers. Grunya calls them to fight, is hurt, and still tells them not to give up.
Cast & crew
More about Nightingale
Nikolai Ekk directed and wrote the script with Regina Yanushkevich. The working title was Nightingale (Solovey-Solovushko). It was released as Grunya Kornakova. Ivan Stepanov designed the sets. Shot in 1935–1936. Premiere at the Khudozhestvenny cinema in Moscow on 11 June 1936. A second listed date is 3 November 1936. Sound was recorded by D. Flyangolykh.
Themes
Background
The factory story is set before the revolution.
Making
Provorov shot on Agfa bipack stock. Part of the print run was colored. The rest used the green record in black and white.
Look
Fyodor Provorov shot it in two-color bipack, two films stacked emulsion to emulsion, a process he developed and compared to Cinecolor. Georgi Reisgof is also credited as cameraman.
Technique
The first Soviet feature film shot in color. Sixty color prints were struck; further copies were black and white from the green separation. The release length is 2,884 meters.
Music
Yakov Stollyar wrote the music.
Notes
- Valentina Ivashova plays Grunya Kornakova. Nikolai Ekk plays the machinist Andrei Rybnikov. Z. Kashkarova plays her mother.
- Also cast: Vladimir Batalov as the factory owner, Mikhail Doronin, Yelena Maksimova, and Oleksandra Vasylieva.
- The Commons file uses the release title, Груня Корнакова (1936).webm.
Scenes
- The owner burns a shop. Grunya's father dies in it.
- Wounded, she still tells the workers not to stop.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Груня Корнакова (1936).webm)
