Ivan PYRIEV
Иван ПЫРЬЕВ
Ivan PYRIEV
USSR, 1949, 110mn 
Colour, fiction
The Cossacks of Kuban
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Кубанские казаки

 

 Les Cosaques du Kouban

 Kubanskiye kazaki

 
Directed by : Ivan PYRIEV (Иван ПЫРЬЕВ)
Writing credits : Nikolay POGODIN (Николай ПОГОДИН)
 
Cast
Boris ANDREYEV (Борис АНДРЕЕВ)
Viktor AVDIUSHKO (Виктор АВДЮШКО)
Sergey BLINNIKOV (Сергей БЛИННИКОВ)
Vladlen DAVYDOV (Владлен ДАВЫДОВ)
Vladimir DOROFEYEV (Владимир ДОРОФЕЕВ)
Sergey ILD (Сергей ИЛЬД)
Aleksandr KHVYLIA (Александр ХВЫЛЯ)
Marina LADYNINA (Марина ЛАДЫНИНА)
Vladimir LEPKO (Владимир ЛЕПКО)
Yuri LIUBIMOV (Юрий ЛЮБИМОВ)
Klara LUCHKO (Клара ЛУЧКО)
Sergey LUKIANOV (Сергей ЛУКЬЯНОВ)
Andrei_2 PETROV (Андрей_2 ПЕТРОВ)
Mikhail PUGOVKIN (Михаил ПУГОВКИН)
Yekaterina SAVINOVA (Екатерина САВИНОВА)
Yelena SAVITSKAIA (Елена САВИЦКАЯ)
Konstantin SOROKIN (Константин СОРОКИН)
Georgi SVETLANI (Георгий СВЕТЛАНИ)
Valentina TELEGINA (Валентина ТЕЛЕГИНА)
Vladimir VOLODIN (Владимир ВОЛОДИН)
 
Cinematography : Valentin PAVLOV (Валентин ПАВЛОВ)
Production design : Boris CHEBOTAREV (Борис ЧЕБОТАРЕВ), Yuri PIMENOV (Юрий ПИМЕНОВ), Georgi TURYLYOV (Георгий ТУРЫЛЕВ)
Music : Isaac DUNAEVSKY (Исаак ДУНАЕВСКИЙ)
Sound : Vyacheslav LESHCHEV (Вячеслав ЛЕЩЕВ)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 40,6 millions of spectators
Restauration : 1968 (Mosfilm)
Release date in Russia : 27/02/1950
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Awards :
Prix de la musique à Isaac Dounaevski au festival de Karlovy Vary, 1950
Prix du Travail à Ivan Pyriev, 1950
Prix Staline, 2e niveau à Isaac Dounaevski, à Marina Ladynina et à Ivan Pyriev, 1950

Plot synopsis
Kuban, the late 40s. At the autumn fair Nikolay, a brave horse-breeder, wishes to marry Dasha Shelest, a pretty woman and a Hero of Socialist Labor. But they have to overcome the resistance of their leaders unwilling to lose the perfect workers. Besides Gordey Voron, leader of the collective farm where Dasha lives, has long been loving Galina Peresvetova, leader of the collective farm where Nikolay lives, but he can’t affirm his love for her. Galina has be the first to declare her love. The musical comedy has a happy end. The young couple prepares for the wedding, and Voron and Peresvetova will soon follow their example.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les dix films soviétiques les plus importants des années 1940, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
20 потрясающих советских музыкальных фильмов [20 comédies musicales soviétiques exceptionnelles], Алексей ХРОМОВ, lifehacker.ru, 2022
Кубанские казаки: «лакированная агитка» или фильм о мечте народной?[Les Cosaques du Kouban : « propagande vernie » ou film sur le rêve d'un peuple ?], dzen.ru, 2022
Кубанские казаки и сталинская пропаганда [Critique du film Les Cosaques du Kouban, 1949, de Ivan PYRIEV], Максим МИРОВИЧ, maxim-nm.livejournal.com, 2018
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq comédies musicales soviétiques qui ont volé la vedette à Hollywood, Neha PATEL, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2018
10 movies that define Russian cinema, Yulia SHAMPOROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2017
Les Cosaques du Kouban (Ivan Pyriev 1949), Tom PEEPING, Sniff and Puff, 2011
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Soviet musicals, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2015
- Les 90 ans des Studios Mosfilm à la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, Paris (France), 2014
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2014
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2012
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2009
- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2008
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2008
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2006
- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (France), 2002
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2000

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