''Martin Borulya'' is a 1953 Soviet
comedy drama film
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. directed by
Aleksei Shvachko and
Gnat Yura and starring Yura,
Varvara Chayka and
Olga Kusenko.
[Kudin p.81] It was made in
Ukrainian at the
Dovzhenko Film Studios
The Dovzhenko Film Studios () is a former Soviet film production studio in UkrSSR and Ukraine that was named after the Soviet film producer, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, in 1957. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the studio became a property of the ...
in
Kyiv
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.
It is based on the eponymous play by Ivan Karpenko-Kary, staged by the Kyiv Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.
Plot
The protagonist, Martyn Borulya, a minor landowner, dreams of acquiring noble status. With the help of a rogue "ablat," he resorts to all possible means to achieve his goal: he acquires a forged document claiming noble ancestry, attempts to remodel his house in a noble style, secures a job for his son by fair means or foul, and plans to marry his daughter Marisya off to a "noble" registrar, Natsiyevsky. The efforts to obtain nobility lead to Borulya’s financial ruin and only bring him misfortune. The tragic intertwines with the comedic. Under pressure from his democratic friends and family members, who do not share his dream of becoming nobility, Borulya makes a conscious effort and burns the documents on which he had hoped to base his claim to noble rights. The family returns to a state of well-being.
Cast
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Gnat Yura as Martyn Borulya
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Varvara Chayka as Palazhka
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Olga Kusenko as Marysya
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Sergey Olekseyenko as Stepan
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Maryan Krushelnitsky as Omelko
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Grigoriy Teslya as Gervasiy Gulyanitskiy
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Vasiliy Dashenko
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*Vasily ...
as Mikola
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Dmitri Milyutenko as Protasiy Penenozhka
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Nikolay Yakovchenko as Trandalyov
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Nikolay Svitenko as Dulskiy
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Semyon Likhogodenko as Trokhim
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Grigori Semyonovich Aleksandrov
References
Bibliography
* Vi͡a͡cheslav Oleksandrovych Kudin. ''Soviet Ukrainian screen art''. Mistetstvo Publishers, 1979.
External links
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1953 films
1953 comedy-drama films
Soviet comedy-drama films
Ukrainian-language films
Films directed by Aleksei Shvachko
Soviet black-and-white films
Soviet-era Ukrainian films
1950s Soviet films
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Russian-language Ukrainian films