The Miracle Worker

1936 DramaComedy 80 minutes Directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin

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About The Miracle Worker

The White Sands farm wants the challenge banner. The members invite the witch Ulyana to charm the cows. The chairman's granddaughter, the milkmaid Zinka, somehow gets record yields.

Cast & crew

More about The Miracle Worker

Aleksandr Medvedkin wrote and directed this Mosfilm comedy. Igor Gelein photographed it. Lev Shvarts wrote the music. Russian Wikipedia times it at 80 minutes. Wikidata says 78. The Russian title is Chudesnitsa.

Themes

  • a challenge banner
  • a witch called in for the cows
  • a milkmaid's record
  • White Sands
  • Zinka
  • Ulyana
  • milk yield
  • kolkhoz

Making

A. Sverdlov was the sound engineer.

Look

Igor Gelein was the cinematographer.

Music

Lev Shvarts wrote the score.

Notes

  • Zinaida Bokareva plays Zinka. Sergey Bulaevskiy plays the herdsman Ivan. Leonid Alekseev plays the chairman Matvey.
  • M. Shlenskaya plays the witch Ulyana. Zinovy Sazhin plays Savva, the local barber.
  • Yelena Ibragimova-Dobrzhanskaya plays Varvara. Tatyana Barysheva plays a calf-tender.

Scenes

  • The farm calls in the witch Ulyana to work a charm over the cows.
  • Zinka, the chairman's granddaughter, posts record yields.

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