Russian Field () is a 1972 Soviet

romantic drama film Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...

directed by Nikolai Moskalenko. It took the 22nd place in terms of attendance among domestic films in the Soviet Union. Fedosia Ugryumova (

Nonna Mordyukova Noyabrina Viktorovna Mordyukova (Russian: Ноябри́на (Но́нна) Ви́кторовна Мордюко́ва; 25 November 1925 – 6 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian actress and People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was the star o ...

) for many is a model of a loving wife, mother, worker. But the son of Philip (Vladimir Tikhonov) has grown, the husband Avdyei (

Leonid Markov Leonid Vasilyevich Markov (; 13 December 1927 – 1 March 1991) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Biography Markov was born in the village Alekseyevka (now Akkol). In the years 1931–1934, ...

) leaves her for young Nadya ( Lyudmila Khityaeva) and Fedosia's world starts to collapse.

Plot

The film is set in a rural Soviet Russian village around the time of its creation. Fedosya Ugryumova, a tractor brigade leader, faces a difficult situation when her husband, Avdey Petrovich, leaves her to marry another woman. Their 18-year-old son, Philip, deeply hurt by his father's actions, even attempts to crush the newlyweds’ car with a tractor on the day of their wedding. Shortly after the marriage, Avdey starts feeling nostalgic for Fedosya, whose straightforward and honest nature contrasts with his new wife Nadya, who is primarily interested in acquiring a car. Philip is soon drafted into the army and is stationed on the Far Eastern border. Meanwhile, Fedosya’s friend, Maria Solovyova, returns to the village after a failed life in the city with no children. When Fedosya and her friends visit the agricultural equipment depot to secure new tractors, they meet Pavel Fedchenkov, who was once Maria's boyfriend in her youth. Pavel later comes to the village to propose to Maria, but she learns that he has four children who lost their mother. Over a year passes since Philip’s enlistment. Avdey tries to return to Fedosya, but she cannot forgive him. At the border where Philip is stationed, a conflict breaks out involving an armed breach (implied to be the Soviet-Chinese border conflict over Damansky Island, though it is not explicitly mentioned in the film), and during the skirmish, Philip is killed by gunfire from the other side. In the film's final scene, Fedosya and her friends are working in the fields on tractors when a group of foreign correspondents arrives. One reporter asks Fedosya how many children she has, to which she replies, "Many. Everyone you meet is mine."

Cast

as Fedosia Ugryumova * Vladimir Tikhonov as Philipp Ugriumov, Fedosya's and Avdei's son *

as Avdei Ugriumov *

Inna Makarova Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and began to work as an actress at the Nati ...

as Maria Solovyova * Lyubov Malinovskaya as Antonina * Lyudmila Khityaeva as Nadya, Avdei's second wife *

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 ...

as Matrona * Nina Maslova as Nina, daughter Antonina *

Vyacheslav Nevinny Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny (; 30 November 1934 – 31 May 2009) was a Soviet and Russian actor who was titled a People's Artist of the USSR in 1986. He worked in the Moscow Art Theatre from 1959 until his death in 2009. Biography Nevinny ...

as Pavel Fomich Fedchenkov * Lyudmila Gladunko as Tanya, Philipp's bride

Awards

In 1972, Nonna Mordyukova was recognized as the best actress as voted by the magazine ''

Soviet Screen ''Soviet Screen'' () was an illustrated magazine published in the USSR with varying frequency from 1925 to 1998 (with a break from 1941–1957Fifty years from the date of the first issue of Soviet Screen — 1975. — P. 18-19.) The magazine co ...

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References

External links

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Russian Field on the official website Mosfilm Studios
' 1972 films 1972 romantic drama films Soviet romantic drama films Russian-language romantic drama films Mosfilm films 1970s Soviet films 1970s Russian-language films {{romantic-drama-film-stub