Love's_Berries

<i>Love's Berries</i>

Love's Berries

1926 film by Oleksandr Dovzhenko


Love's Berries (Russian: Ягoдка любви, romanized: Yagodka lyubvi, Ukrainian: Ягідка кохання, romanized: Yahidka kokhannia) is a 1926 Soviet comedy film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film was Dovzhenko's debut, and the screenplay was written in three days.[1] It deals with a dandified barber's attempts to get rid of his "love berry" — his illegitimate offspring.[2]

Quick Facts Ягoдка любви / Ягідка кохання (Love's Berries), Directed by ...

Plot

Hairdresser Jean Colbasiuc learns from his girlfriend about an unexpected materialization of their child. Not ready to be a father, the young man tries to get rid of the baby left in his care. After a few unsuccessful attempts to place the baby onto unsuspecting citizens, by this time Colbasiuc receives a notice from the People's Court, agrees to the registration of marriage and only then learns from Lisa that the child, who served as a catalyst for the incident, was borrowed by her from her Aunt.

Cast

  • Maryan Krushelnitsky as Jean Kolbacjuk (as Maryan Krushchelnitsky)
  • Margarita Barskaya as Young woman
  • Dmitriy Kapka as Toys salesman
  • Ivan Zamychkovsky as Tolstjak
  • Volodimir Lisovsky as Old man on whom the fat man offloads
  • A. Belov as Fat client
  • L. Chembarsky as Fop on whom the fat man offloads
  • N. Zemgano as Photographer
  • K. Zapadnaia as Girl on the boulevard
  • Nikolai Nademsky as Seltzer water salesman

References

  1. Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 219.



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