Станица Дальняя
About Станица Дальняя
Army maneuvers near the Kuban villages of Dalnyaya and Kochetkovskaya use local Cossack detachments, one village for the red side and one for the blue. At the kolkhoz meeting the women insist on a part. The men go to the exercises, and the women and the grandfathers take the harvest jobs. Combine crews miss the quota, then go back at the work. Mikhail Ageyev, played by Nikolai Kryuchkov, gets a cavalry patrol through and 'blows up' a bridge, but the scouts he sends under his father are captured by women led by the mother of his fiancée Dasha Gorkunova. After the maneuvers the village holds Mikhail and Dasha's wedding.
Cast & crew
More about Станица Дальняя
Yevgeni Chervyakov directed Boris Chirskov's comedy. Ilya Frez was second director. Svyatoslav Belyaev photographed it, Maria Fateeva and Nikolai Suvorov designed it, and Vladimir Shcherbachov wrote the music. Yuri Kurzner recorded the sound. The premiere was 19 April 1940.
Themes
Reviews
Yakov Butovsky writes that Belyaev's close-ups could not save a weak script. Nikolai Efimov, in a biography of Chervyakov, calls it the director's worst film, and Pyotr Bagrov groups it with the sound films that hurt Chervyakov's name. Rostislav Yurenev, in Iskusstvo Kino in 1970, describes the picture as light and says Fyodorova, Kryuchkov, and Filippov gave the best scenes a vaudeville ease.
Look
Svyatoslav Belyaev, Chervyakov's longtime cameraman, shot the film, including the close-ups Butovsky singles out.
Music
Vladimir Shcherbachov composed the score.
Notes
- Zoya Fyodorova plays Dasha. N. Volkova plays Dasha's mother and Pavel Kurzner plays Mikhail's father.
- Sergei Filippov plays a Cossack who keeps the kolkhoz accounts. Andrei Kostrichkin plays grandfather Samson.
- Ivan Nazarov, as the machine-tractor station director, is not on the credits.
- V. Katinov discussed the film in 'Lessons of Five Comedies,' Iskusstvo Kino, 1940, no. 4.
Scenes
- The kolkhoz meeting splits the harvest from the maneuvers.
- Women capture Mikhail's father's patrol.
- The village dances at Mikhail and Dasha's wedding.
