Wake Lena Up
About Wake Lena Up
Lenochka is a schoolgirl who is always late. Her friends invent a way to break the habit. The catalog adds that she dreams of cowboys and Indians while her brother plays tricks on her as she sleeps. Antonina Kudryavtseva directed the silent three-part comedy. Yanina Zheymo, then 25, plays the child.
Cast & crew
More about Wake Lena Up
Nikolay Oleynikov and Evgeny Shvarts wrote it, and Georgy Filatov photographed the Yalta shoot. The film is a silent three-parter running 26 minutes. A sound sequel, Lenochka and the Grapes, followed in 1936.
Themes
Making
The Russian page stresses that the actress playing the little schoolgirl was 25 during the Yalta shoot.
Look
Georgy Filatov photographed the silent comedy in Yalta.
Music
The film is silent. A later Master Tape DVD adds a Dolby Digital 2.0 track.
Notes
- Sergei Gerasimov is also billed.
- Yevgenia Slovtsova is named as the designer on a Russian reference page.
- Zheymo's age, 25, is given as a production fact on the Russian Wikipedia.
- A Master Tape DVD is listed there: PAL, 4:3, region 0, no subtitles.
Scenes
- Lenochka dreams of cowboys and Indians while her brother tricks her in her sleep.
Influenced
- Lenochka and the Grapes
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Razbudite Lenochku (1934).ogv)
- Master Tape DVD (PAL, region 0)
