''Accordion'' () is a 1934 Soviet

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serv ...

directed by

Igor Savchenko Igor Andreyevich Savchenko () or Ihor Andriyovych Savchenko (; 11 October 1906 – 14 December 1950) was a Soviet screenwriter and film director of Ukrainian origin. He has often been cited as one of the great early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Se ...

.Christie & Taylor p.427

Plot

The merry village accordionist Timofey Dudin, or as known by his nickname Timoshka, is elected secretary at one of the

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...

units. This high office, in his opinion, is not compatible with playing on the accordion. The unusual prolonged silence leads quickly to a discord between the true Komsomol and the

kulak Kulak ( ; rus, кула́к, r=kulák, p=kʊˈɫak, a=Ru-кулак.ogg; plural: кулаки́, ''kulakí'', 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul () or golchomag (, plural: ), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over ...

supporters which causes Timoshka to pick up his accordion again ...

Cast

Zoya Fyodorova Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (also Fedorova) (; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. Having rejected the advances of N ...

- Marusenka * Pyotr Savin - Timoshka *

- son of a

* Nikolay Gorlov - Mitya * Nikolai Yarochkin * Nikolai Zyryanov * Pyotr Gorelov * Lyalya Sateyeva * Ye. Yukhova * E. Pirogova

Production

Poet Aleksandr Zharov assisted Savchenko with the rhymed dialog. The film was made from concept to release in eight months at a time when the average production time would extend into years.

References

Bibliography

* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.

External links

* Films directed by Igor Savchenko 1934 musical comedy films Soviet musical comedy films Russian musical comedy films Soviet black-and-white films 1930s Russian-language films 1934 films Russian black-and-white films 1930s Soviet films Russian-language musical comedy films {{musical-comedy-film-stub