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.
- Released
- 1928-04-29
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Yakov Protazanov
- TMDB rating
- 4.7/10 from 6 votes
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