The Country Doctor
About The Country Doctor
Medical graduate Tatyana Kazakova is assigned to the village of Goryachiye Klyuchi. She means to prove herself to the small staff of the hospital. Its head is 76-year-old Dr. Arsenyev, sharp and slow to trust a new doctor. That distrust sets off a short quarrel between them.
Cast & crew
More about The Country Doctor
Sergei Gerasimov directed Maria Smirnova's script at the Gorky studio in 1951, in color. Russian Wikipedia gives the premiere as 17 January 1952. Vladimir Rapoport was the cinematographer and Nikolai Budashkin the composer.
Themes
Background
A postwar assignment drama about a new graduate sent to a village hospital still run by an old zemstvo-trained doctor.
Making
Gerasimov shot the picture in 1951. Makarova, his wife and frequent lead, plays the new doctor.
Look
Vladimir Rapoport photographed the color film in the village hospital and the surrounding settlement.
Music
Nikolai Budashkin wrote the score.
Preservation
The film survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Tamara Makarova plays Tatyana Nikolaevna Kazakova.
- Grigory Belov plays Dr. Arseny Ivanovich Arsenyev.
- Vsevolod Sanayev, Ivan Kuznetsov, Inna Makarova, and Aleksandra Panova are in the cast.
- The Russian title is Сельский врач. English titles include The Village Doctor and The Country Doctor.
- A Kirill and Methodius entry lists the color running time as 113 minutes.
Scenes
- Kazakova arrives at the Goryachiye Klyuchi hospital and meets Dr. Arsenyev.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1951. Сельский врач.webm)
