Wedding
About Wedding
The Zhigalovs discover that the official Aplombov, who has dined with them all summer and let them call him their daughter Dasha's fiancé, does not intend to marry. Her father Evdokim talks him into a proposal. Aplombov agrees only if a general comes to the wedding. The honored guest is retired Captain Second Rank Revunov-Karaulov. At the height of the party the family learns he is no general, and that he was paid 25 rubles to attend. He leaves. Drunk, Aplombov fights with the telegraphist Yat and, hearing that the dowry is smaller than he expected, rips the pillows.
Cast & crew
More about Wedding
Isidor Annensky adapted Chekhov's vaudeville The Wedding together with the stories The Wedding with a General, Before the Wedding, and A Marriage of Convenience, and the sketch The Bridegroom and Papa. Yuri Yekelchik photographed it. Valery Zhelobinsky wrote the music.
Themes
Background
Released in the summer of 1944, the comedy is set among pre-revolutionary townspeople, not in the war.
Making
Annensky shot the Chekhov wedding as a feature comedy for Mosfilm in partnership with the Georgian studio.
Look
Yuri Yekelchik shot the single-evening wedding party and the rooms of the Zhigalov household.
Music
Valery Zhelobinsky wrote the score.
Preservation
The feature survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Alexey Gribov plays Evdokim Zhigalov, Faina Ranevskaya his wife Nastasya Timofeyevna, Zoya Fyodorova the bride Dasha, and Erast Garin the groom Aplombov.
- Nikolay Konovalov plays Revunov-Karaulov.
- Sergei Martinson, Mikhail Yanshin, and Vera Maretskaya are also in the cast.
- Wikidata also lists 21 February 1945 among the publication dates.
- The Russian title is Свадьба.
Scenes
- Revunov-Karaulov arrives and is presented as a general.
- He walks out when he hears about the 25 rubles.
- Aplombov tears the wedding pillows over the dowry.
Influenced by
- Anton Chekhov's vaudeville The Wedding
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1944 Свадьба.webm)
