The Beloved
About The Beloved
A couple separates as soon as the wedding is over. Friends and family spend the film trying to put the newlyweds back in the same house. Marina Ladynina and Vsevolod Sanayev play the pair. Faina Ranevskaya is among the people pushing them together.
Cast & crew
More about The Beloved
Ivan Pyryev directed. Pavel Nilin wrote the script. Valentin Pavlov photographed and Lev Shvarts composed the score. Mosfilm released it on August 20, 1940. The Russian title is Lyubimaya devushka. The running time is 83 minutes.
Themes
Making
Pyryev keeps the story inside one quarrel and the people who will not leave it alone.
Look
Valentin Pavlov shot the wedding and the attempts to reunite the couple.
Music
Lev Shvarts wrote the score.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Leonid Kmit, Aleksandr Zrazhevsky, and Mariya Yarotskaya are in the cast with Ranevskaya.
- The split happens immediately after the ceremony, not after years of marriage.
- Pyryev and Ladynina, later a famous screen couple, are director and lead here.
- The English title The Beloved shortens Lyubimaya devushka, "the beloved girl.
- Shvarts's score is the only music credit.
Scenes
- The couple parts as soon as the wedding is finished.
- Family and friends start the campaign to bring them back.
