Konstantin YUDIN
Константин ЮДИН
Konstantin YOUDINE
USSR, 1954, 56mn 
Colour, fiction
The Swedish Match
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Шведская спичка

 

 Allumette suédoise

 Shvedskaya spichka

 
Directed by : Konstantin YUDIN (Константин ЮДИН)
Writing credits : Nikolay ERDMAN (Николай ЭРДМАН)
Based on Chekhov's short story of the same title
 
Cast
Aleksey GRIBOV (Алексей ГРИБОВ) ...Chubikov
Nikolay GRITSENKO (Николай ГРИЦЕНКО)
Marina_2 KUZNETSOVA (Марина_2 КУЗНEЦOВA)
Yuri LEONIDOV (Юрий ЛЕОНИДОВ)
Andrey POPOV (Андрей ПОПОВ)
Mikhail YANSHIN (Михаил ЯНШИН)
 
Cinematography : Igor GELEIN (Игорь ГЕЛЕЙН), Valentin ZAKHAROV (Валентин ЗАХАРОВ)
Production design : Georgi TURYLYOV (Георгий ТУРЫЛЕВ)
Music : Vasili SHIRINSKY (Василий ШИРИНСКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 10/08/1954
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

Plot synopsis
Screen version of a story by A. Chekhov. A burnt match found under the bed of Klyauzov, a hellbender and wencher, the rumor of whose murder ran through the town, becomes an evidence that leads Dyukovsky, the coroner assistant, who suspects the comers and goers, to a washhouse, where the dead drunk «victim» sleeps quietly. The abashed detectives withdraw.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010

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