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The Marriage of Balzaminov
Based on the trilogy of Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Moscow, XIX century. A small official Misha Balzaminov lives in a small house. He, like his mother, sees his happiness in marrying a rich bride. Misha images in dreams and fantasies that he is a general or even a king — rich and domineering. And in reality, poor Balzaminov is haunted by setbacks...
| Release : | 1964 |
| Rating : | 7.5 |
| Studio : | Mosfilm, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Camera Operator, |
| Cast : | Georgiy Vitsin Lyudmila Shagalova Lidiya Smirnova Ekaterina Savinova Zhanna Prokhorenko |
| Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Please don't spend money on this.
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
Admirable film.
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
The movie is an adaptation of a very old Russian satirical novel. To adapt the novel for the screen and make a movie was a long-time dream of the director of this movie. During the most stringent Soviet rule he couldn't make it, the censorship didn't allow it for some reasons (that could be sometimes truly bizarre and incomprehensible). Finally he succeeded and the movie was made. The main character - young clerk who was supposed to be 17 years old, was played by brilliant Georgy Vitsin, who at the time of filming was over 50 ! The film is very light and playful, but never dumb, no unnecessary banana-peel jokes. It is a real "cure against the stress" and also another example of how a funny movie can also be a work of art.
Poor clerk in XIX Century Russia is looking for a rich bride. The problem is that rich brides are looking for a rich husbands. Good performance by Vitsin and the entire cast. One of the best movies made about about Russian life of the period. Note: some jokes are typical Russian, so outsider might find them rather strange.
