Earthly Love
Earthy Love (Russian: Любовь земная, romanized: Lyubov zemnaya) is a 1974 Russian romantic drama film directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova, and Yury Yakovlev. The film was a screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's novel Earthy Love, and was viewed by 50.9 million spectators in 1975.[1] Yevgeny Matveyev was honored with the State Prize of the RSFSR for Earthy Love and Destiny.[2]
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| Directed by | Yevgeny Matveyev |
| Written by | Yevgeny Matveyev Valentin Chernykh Pyotr Proskurin |
| Produced by | Anatoly Mironov |
| Starring | Yevgeny Matveyev Olga Ostroumova Yury Yakovlev Valeriya Zaklunna Zinaida Kiriyenko |
| Cinematography | Victor Yakushev Genadiy Tsekaviy |
| Edited by | Maria Kareva |
| Music by | Yevgeny Ptichkin |
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Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
A story about love, the late chairman of the collective farm Zakhar Derugin (Yevgeny Matveev) marries the young woman Maria Polivanova (Olga Ostroumova) at the height of the harvest. There is a parallel developing romance between Catherine and her sister Derugin secretary of the District Party Committee Bryukhanov. The film shows the life of the Soviet countryside in the 1930s.
Cast
- Yevgeny Matveyev as Zakhar Deriugin
- Zinaida Kiriyenko as Efrosinya
Zinaida Kiriyenko - Yury Yakovlev as Tikhon
- Valeriya Zaklunna as Katerina
- Olga Ostroumova as Manya
Olga Ostroumova - Irina Skobtseva as Elizaveta Polivanova
Irina Skobtseva - Viktor Khokhryakov as Chubarov
- Vladimir Samoilov as Rodion Anisimov
- Stanislav Chekan as Koshev
- Aleksandr Potapov as Nikita Bobok
- Muza Krepkogorskaya as Varya Chernaya
- Valentin Bryleyev as Kudelin
- Yuri Leonidov as Tikhomirov
- Vadim Spiridonov as Fyodor Makashin
- Ivan Bondar as Proshka
- Alexander Degtyar as supplier
- Roman Filippov as Baturin
- Zoya Isayeva as collective farmer
- Valentina Klyagina as Nadya
- Yura Kovalyov as episode
- Aleksandr Lebedev as Semyon
- Aleksandr Lukyanov as collective farmer
- Viktor Markin as episode
- Yuri Martynov as District Committee member
- Ivan Matveyev as a short collective farmer
- Grigory Mikhaylov as construction worker
- Vladimir Nosik as Yurka
- Lidiya Olshevskaya as Zakhar's mother
- Misha Orlov as episode
- Dmitri Orlovsky as District Committee member
- Valentina Pikalova as member of the Bureau of the District Committee
- Vladimir Pitsek as called on the Office of the District Committee
- Vladimir Plotnikov as Kiryan Polivanov
- Viktor Shulgin as District Committee member
- Nikolay Smorchkov as Vasily
Nikolay Smorchkov - Lyubov Sokolova as District Committee member
- Viktor Uralsky as man at reception
- Valentina Ushakova as Nyurka Bobok
- Kirill Uspensky as episode
- Aleksandr Vigdorov as Mitry Polivanov
- Nikolai Vikulin as Vanya Deriugin
- Valentina Vladimirova as Nina Ivanovna, secretary of Bryukhanov
- Nikolai Yudin as grandfather Makar
- Valentin Chernyak as Kulikov
- Zoya Vasilkova as Emelyanova
- Vladimir Protasenko as NKVD officer (uncredited)
- Yevgeny Nikitin as German soldier (uncredited)
Yevgeny Nikitin
References
- "Earthy Love" (in Russian). Peoples.Film. Archived from the original on November 12, 2009. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
- "Yevgeny Matveyev" (in Russian). rusactors. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
External links
- Lyubov zemnaya at IMDb
- Earthy Love:Film.Peoples (in Russian)
- Earthy Love: Kino-teatr.ru (in Russian)