Don Diego and Pelagia (1928)

Name: Don Diego and Pelagia
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1928-04-29
Duration: 58 min
Cast: Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina, Anatoliy Bykov, Vladimir Mikhaylov, I. Levkoyeva, Ivan Yudin

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.

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Released 1928-04-29 · 58 min · Comedy, Drama

Directed by Yakov Protazanov

Cast

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Pelagia Dyomina
Anatoliy Bykov as 'Don Diego', stationmaster
Vladimir Mikhaylov as Pelagia's husband
I. Levkoyeva as Komsomol member
Ivan Yudin as Misha, komsomol member
Vladimir Popov as Village council caretaker
Osip Brik as Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy
Alexandr Gromov as Registration and distribution official
Daniil Vvedenskiy as Watchman
Mikhail Zharov as Mikhail Zharov
Yelena Tyapkina as Priestess
Ivan Pelttser as OU secretary
Vera Maretskaya as Woman in the courtroom
Andrei Gorchilin as (uncredited)
Nikolay Ivakin as Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)