Don Diego and Pelagia

Don Diego and Pelagia

58 mins | Drama, Comedy | April 29, 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.

Don Diego and Pelagia

58 mins | Drama, Comedy | April 29, 1928

Don Diego and Pelagia
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.
Producers
Original title Дон Диего и Пелагея
Directors Yakov Protazanov
Writers Vasily Lokot

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

Vera Maretskaya

as Woman in the courtroom

Andrei Gorchilin

as (uncredited)

Nikolay Ivakin

as Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)

Sofya Levitina

as Woman in the prison (uncredited)

M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy

as (uncredited)

Lev Fenin

as Friend of the head of the railway section service (uncredited)

M. Shlenskaya

as Deaf old woman (uncredited)