Don Diego and Pelagia (1928)
The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.
Director: Yakov Protazanov
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Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Pelagia Dyomina |
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Anatoliy Bykov as 'Don Diego', stationmaster |
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Vladimir Mikhaylov as Pelagia's husband |
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I. Levkoyeva as Komsomol member |
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Ivan Yudin as Misha, komsomol member |
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Vladimir Popov as Village council caretaker |
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Osip Brik as Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy |
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Alexandr Gromov as Registration and distribution official |
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Daniil Vvedenskiy as Watchman |
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Mikhail Zharov as Mikhail Zharov |
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Yelena Tyapkina as Priestess |
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Ivan Pelttser as OU secretary |
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Vera Maretskaya as Woman in the courtroom |
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Andrei Gorchilin as (uncredited) |
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Nikolay Ivakin as Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited) |
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Sofya Levitina as Woman in the prison (uncredited) |
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M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy as (uncredited) |
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Lev Fenin as Friend of the head of the railway section service (uncredited) |
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Mariya Shlenskaya as Deaf old woman (uncredited) |
| Directing | Yakov Protazanov | Director |
| Writing | Vasily Lokot | Writer |
| Writing | Vasily Lokot | Short Story |
| Camera | Yevgeni Alekseyev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Sergei Kozlovsky | Production Design |
