''Bountiful Summer'' (russian: Щедрое лето, Shchedroe leto) is a 1951 Soviet

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directed by Boris Barnet and starring

Nina Arkhipova Nina Nikolayevna Arkhipova (russian: Нина Николаевна Архипова; 1 May 1921Нина Архипов� ...

Nikolay Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993. Selected fi ...

and

Viktor Dobrovolsky Viktor Nikolaevich Dobrovolsky (russian: Виктор Николаевич Добровольский; uk, Віктор Миколайович Добровольський; January 23, 1906 – July 28, 1984), was a Soviet and Ukrainian film and ...

. The film is set on a

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. It was shot at the Kiev Film Studio in 1950, but released the following year.Kenez p.250 It was also released in America the same year in a

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version by

Artkino Pictures Nicola Napoli, was the President of Artkino Pictures, Inc., the primary distributor of Soviet films in the United States, Canada, Central America and South America from 1940 to 1982. Napoli was a double agent Soviet Spy for the United States. In 19 ...

. The film was shot using a version of the

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process.

Cast

Nina Arkhipova Nina Nikolayevna Arkhipova (russian: Нина Николаевна Архипова; 1 May 1921Нина Архипов� ...

as Vera Groshko *

as Nazar Protsenko *

as Ruban *

Marina Bebutova A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : ''marina'', "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ship ...

as Oksana Podpruzhenko * Anton Dunajsky as Prokopchuk * Georgi Gumilevsky as Musi Antonovich *

Alla Kazanskaya Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya () (15 June 1920 – 25 June 2008) was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. Her most notable film appearance was in the Academy Award-winnin ...

as Zoological technician *

Muza Krepkogorskaya Musa Viktorovna Krepkogorskaya (russian: Муза Викторовна Крепкогорская; July 9, 1924, Moscow — June 26, 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989). Wife of ac ...

as Darka * Mikhail Kuznetsov as Peter Sereda *

Vera Kuznetsova Vera Andreevna Kuznetsova (russian: Вера Андреевна Кузнецова; 6 October 1907 — 11 December 1994) was a Russian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films from 1944 to 1991. Selected filmography References Extern ...

as Ekaterina Matveievna * Yelena Maksimova as Kolodchka *

Konstantin Sorokin The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name '' Constantinus'' ( Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the G ...

as Teslyuk * Mikhail Vysotsky as Podpruzhenko * Zoya Tolbuzina as Vera

References

Bibliography

* Peter Kenez. ''Cinema and Soviet Society: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin''. I.B.Tauris, 2001.

External links

* 1951 films Soviet comedy-drama films 1951 comedy-drama films 1950s Russian-language films Films directed by Boris Barnet Films set in Ukraine {{1950s-USSR-film-stub