Volga - Volga (1938)
April 24, 1938Release Date
Volga - Volga (1938)
April 24, 1938Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Igor Ilyinsky
Byvalov
Vladimir Volodin
The Pilot
Pavel Olenev
The Water-Carter
Sergei Antimonov
The Steamboat Captain
Andrei Tutyshkin
Alyosha Trubyshkin
Lyubov Orlova
Strelka Petrova
Anatoli Shalayev
The Boy Musical Prodigy
Mariya Mironova
The Secretary
Nikita Kondratyev
The Waiter
Vsevolod Sanayev
The Lumberjack
Aleksey Dolinin
The Militia Man (as A. G. Dolinin)
Ivan Chuvelyov
The Olympiad Representative (as I. P. Chuvelyov)
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Niki Otto
The Cooc
Nikolay Erdman
Writer
Vladimir Nilsen
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 24, 1938
Original NameВолга-Волга
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 44m
Filming LocationsKrasnaya Sloodka, Russia
Genres
Wiki.
Volga-Volga (Russian: Волга-Волга) is a Soviet musical comedy directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, released on April 24, 1938. It centres on a group of amateur performers on their way to Moscow to perform in a talent contest called the Moscow Musical Olympiad. Most of the action takes place on a steamboat travelling on the Volga River. The lead roles were played by Alexandrov's wife, Lyubov Orlova, and Igor Ilyinsky.
According to Orlova, the name of the film is taken from a popular Russian folk song, Stenka Razin, that Alexandrov sang while rowing with Charlie Chaplin in San Francisco Bay. Chaplin jokingly suggested the words as a title for a movie, but Alexandrov took it seriously and named his new film Volga-Volga.The feature was said to be Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's favourite film. Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs says that in the pre-World War II period Stalin laughed at him since he resembled a character from the film.
The film is a glorification of Moscow Canal but there is not any hint in the film that this canal was built by Gulag prisoners.
In 1961, a new version of a movie was released, with the "Joseph Stalin" ship cut.
In 2006, a colorization of the original black-and-white film began. The colorized version premiered on the Russian First Channel on February 14, 2010.