The stationmaster of a small railway station, Yakov Ivanovich Golovach, is obsessed with reading historical novels about knights. Fancying himself as the hero of one book – Don Diego - he loves to fight with an imaginary opponent. He is caught in the act by the female residents of the surrounding villages who came to the station to meet the arriving mail train, in order to sell foodstuffs.
The laughter of the peasant women makes Yakov Ivanovich furious. In a rage, he orders the detention of violators of the railway rules who are crossing the railway line. But he only manages to catch the dawdling old woman Pelageya Diomina ...
diego, pelagia, russian, Дон, Диего, Пелагея, romanized, diego, pelageya, 1928, soviet, silent, comedy, drama, directed, yakov, protazanov, directed, byyakov, protazanovwritten, byvasili, lokotcinematographyyevgeni, alekseyevproductioncompanymezhrabpomfilmrele. Don Diego and Pelagia Russian Don Diego i Pelageya romanized Don Diego i Pelageya is a 1928 Soviet silent comedy drama directed by Yakov Protazanov 1 2 Don Diego and PelagiaDirected byYakov ProtazanovWritten byVasili LokotCinematographyYevgeni AlekseyevProductioncompanyMezhrabpomfilmRelease date24 February 1928CountrySoviet UnionLanguagesSilent Russian intertitlesThe film s art direction was by Sergei Kozlovsky Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External linksPlot editThe stationmaster of a small railway station Yakov Ivanovich Golovach is obsessed with reading historical novels about knights Fancying himself as the hero of one book Don Diego he loves to fight with an imaginary opponent He is caught in the act by the female residents of the surrounding villages who came to the station to meet the arriving mail train in order to sell foodstuffs The laughter of the peasant women makes Yakov Ivanovich furious In a rage he orders the detention of violators of the railway rules who are crossing the railway line But he only manages to catch the dawdling old woman Pelageya Diomina Cast editMariya Blyumental Tamarina as Pelageya Diomina Anatoliy Bykov as Don Diego station master Vladimir Mikhaylov as Pelageya s husband I Levkoyeva as Natasha member Komsomol Ivan Yudin as Misha cell secretary Komsomol Vladimir Popov as Miroshka guard Volispolkom Daniil Vvedenskiy as Night watcher Aleksandr Gromov as Uchraspred Mikhail Zharov as himself B Gusiev as Militia man Yelena Tyapkina as Pope s Wife Ivan Pelttser as Bureaucrat Sergei Tsenin as Bureaucrat Osip Brik as Bureaucrat Nikolay Ivakin as Cooperative Shop Employee Lev Fenin as Postman s Guest Vera Maretskaya as Girl in trial Sofya Levitina as Woman in Jail Andrei Gorchilin ChuveliovReferences edit Christie amp Taylor p 428 Jay Leyda 1960 Kino A History of the Russian and Soviet Film George Allen amp Unwin p 240 Bibliography editChristie Ian amp Taylor Richard The Film Factory Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896 1939 Routledge 2012 External links editDon Diego and Pelagia at IMDb nbsp This article related to a Soviet film of the 1920s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Don Diego and Pelagia amp oldid 1149359827, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
