Don Diego and Pelagia

Original title: Дон Диего и Пелагея

Duration: 58 min

Release date: 1928-04-29

IMDB

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.

Comedy Drama

Дон Диего и Пелагея

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Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

as Pelagia Dyomina

as 'Don Diego', stationmaster

Volodymyr Mikhajlov

Volodymyr Mikhajlov

as Pelagia's husband

as Komsomol member

as Misha, komsomol member

as Village council caretaker

as Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy

Alexandr Gromov

Alexandr Gromov

as Registration and distribution official

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Daniil Vvedenskiy

as Mikhail Zharov

Yelena Tyapkina

Yelena Tyapkina

as OU secretary

Vera Maretskaya

Vera Maretskaya

as Woman in the courtroom

Andrei Gorchilin

Andrei Gorchilin

as (uncredited)

as Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)

as Woman in the prison (uncredited)

M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy

M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy

as (uncredited)

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

Mariya Shlenskaya

Mariya Shlenskaya

as Deaf old woman (uncredited)

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Yakov Protazanov

Yakov Protazanov

Yevgeni Alekseyev

Yevgeni Alekseyev

Director of Photography

Sergei Kozlovsky

Sergei Kozlovsky

Production Design

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