Don Diego and Pelagia (1928)

4.7/10 • 58 min • Comedy Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Pelagia Dyomina

Vladimir Mikhaylov

Pelagia's husband

Ivan Yudin

Misha, komsomol member

Vladimir Popov

Village council caretaker

Osip Brik

Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy

Alexandr Gromov

Registration and distribution official

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Mikhail Zharov

Yelena Tyapkina

Ivan Pelttser

Vera Maretskaya

Woman in the courtroom

Nikolay Ivakin

Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)

Sofya Levitina

Woman in the prison (uncredited)

M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy

Lev Fenin

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

Mariya Shlenskaya

Deaf old woman (uncredited)

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