Volga - Volga

Volga - Volga

104 mins | Comedy, Music | April 24, 1938

Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.

Volga - Volga

104 mins | Comedy, Music | April 24, 1938

Volga - Volga
Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow Musical Olympiad.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Волга-Волга
Directors Grigori Aleksandrov
Writers Mikhail Volpin, Nikolay Erdman, Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast

Lyubov Orlova

as Strelka Petrova

Igor Ilyinsky

as Byvalov

Vladimir Volodin

as The Pilot

Pavel Olenev

as The Water-Carter

Sergei Antimonov

as The Steamboat Captain

Andrei Tutyshkin

as Alyosha Trubyshkin

Mariya Mironova

as The Secretary (as M. V. Mironova)

Vsevolod Sanayev

as The Lumberjack (as V. V. Sanayev)

Nikita Kondratyev

as The Waiter (as N. S. Kondratyev)

Anatoli Shalayev

as The Boy Musical Prodigy (as Tolya Shalayev)

Aleksey Dolinin

as The Militia Man (as A. G. Dolinin)

Ivan Chuvelyov

as The Olympiad Representative (as I. P. Chuvelyov)

Niki Otto

as The Cooc