Yakov PROTAZANOV
Яков ПРОТАЗАНОВ
Yakov PROTAZANOV
USSR, 1928, 48mn 
Black and white, silent, fiction
Don diego i Pelalageya
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Дон Диего и Пелагея

 

 Don Diègue et Pélagie

 Don diego i Pelalageya

 
Directed by : Yakov PROTAZANOV (Яков ПРОТАЗАНОВ)
 
Cast
Mariya BLYUMENTAL-TAMARINA (Мария БЛЮМЕНТАЛЬ-ТАМАРИНА) ...Pélagie
Yelena TIAPKINA (Елена ТЯПКИНА)
Daniil VVEDENSKY (Даниил ВВЕДЕНСКИЙ)
Ivan_2 YUDIN (Иван_2 ЮДИН)
Mikhail ZHAROV (Михаил ЖАРОВ) ...Mikhaïl Ivanovitch
 
Cinematography : Evgeniy ALEKSEYEV (Евгений АЛЕКСЕЕВ)
Production design : Sergey KOZLOVSKI (Сергей КОЗЛОВСКИЙ)
Production : Mejrabpom-Rus
 

Plot synopsis
A satirical comedy about the intervention of bureaucracy in village life. The Station Master spends most of his time in bed reading the adventures of the knight Don Diego. An old lady (Pelagia) is arrested and imprisoned for crossing the railway tracks at a forbidden place, which many travelers regularly do. It will take a lot of effort and a lot of energy to try to obtain the lady's release.
 

Commentaries
Пять комедий Протазанова. [Cinq comédies de Protazanov], Rostislav YURENYEV, chapaev.media, 1964
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The Golden Age of Soviet Cinema : 1924-1930, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. First part: 1917-1945, Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2017
- Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone (Italy), 2014
- International Film Festival Zerkalo. Tarkovsky's Philosophy, Ivanovo (Russia), 2008
- Protazanov Seminar, Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1982

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