Don Diego and Pelagia (1928)

58 min · Soviet Union · Dir. Yakov Protazanov

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

Anatoliy Bykov

'Don Diego', stationmaster

Vladimir Mikhaylov

Pelagia's husband

I. Levkoyeva

Komsomol member

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

Watchman

Mikhail Zharov

Mikhail Zharov

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