Volga - Volga (1938) movie

Volga-Volga (Russian: Волга-Волга) is a Soviet film comedy directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, released on April 24, 1938. It centres on a group of amateur performers on their way to Moscow to perform in a talent contest called the Moscow Musical Olympiad. Most of the action takes place on a steamboat travelling on the Volga River. The lead roles were played by Alexandrov's wife, Lyubov Orlova, and Igor Ilyinsky.
According to Orlova, the name of the film is taken from a popular Russian folk song, Stenka Razin, that Alexandrov sang while rowing with Charlie Chaplin in San Francisco Bay. Chaplin jokingly suggested the words as a title for a movie, but Alexandrov took it seriously and named his new film Volga-Volga.
The feature was said to be Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's favourite film. Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs says that in the pre-war period Stalin laughed at him since he resembled a character from the film.
Volga - Volga (1938) movie
Genre: Comedy
Production Co.: Mosfilm
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Writing Credits: Nikolay Erdman, Vladimir Nilsen, Mikhail Volpin
Music by Isaak Dunayevsky
Cinematography by Vladimir Nilsen, Boris Petrov
Cast:
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
Lyubov Orlova as Strelka Petrova
Anatoli Shalayev as The Boy Musical Prodigy
Mariya Mironova as The Secretary
Nikita Kondratyev as The Waiter
Vsevolod Sanaev as The Lumberjack
Alexei Dolinin as The Militia Man
Ivan Chuvelyov as The Olympiad Representative
Emmanuil Geller

[@liliacuxa2704]

Великолеаный фильм в ВЕЛИКОЙ стране СССР Спасибо

[@DANIEL666YUSUPOV_KAZANOVA]

This was Joseph Stalin favorite movie

[@supriya5124]

That's why I'm here

[@Aymericgry]

@@supriya5124 me too

[@immanray8214]

David Bordwell? 😛

[@RozuHanabiraProjectx]

this movie is actually incredibly funny and witty. especially for being 81 years old it still holds well

[@DANIEL666YUSUPOV_KAZANOVA]

Rozu Hanabira Project and also was Joseph Stalin favorite movie

[@tf1090c]

Clicked just out curiosity to see what Stalins favourite film was like.
I’m actually quite surprised at how good this is...

[@Katyusha666]

It wasn't exclusively his favourite film, he also had a penchant for American Westerns. When the Germans were defeated in '45 he also "inherited" a huge trove of American films which were once part of Goebbels' collection (himself a big fan of American cinema.)

[@b0ltun0]

11:48 dfghdsjd i cant stop laughing at this, i love the style of humor many movies had in the early decades

[@TheVeryBlondeOne]

47:34 If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!

[@heresy8384]

Read about this in a book about Soviet Cultural history, I have to say it's just as good as the book said

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

One of the greatest film in the world,....from India.

[@archaontheeverchosen7980]

Thank you for posting this it is a hidden gem.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

Isaak Dunayevsky was a noted Russian operetta composer.

[@ekalbelddirp]

45:37 if your happy and you know it

[@Nabeelboragrag1]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@StormyJack-qk2tn]

Stalin's favorite movie..

[@oldfan1963]

funny and witty

[@000SolidSnake]

Wait, which character did Khrushchev resemble according to Stalin? I have a good guess, but I wanna know specifically

[@johnfalstaff2270]

Igor Ilyinsky performing Byvalov role resembles Khrushchev.

[@tachanka1612]

Savinkov's Favourite

[@volvo7821]

Si aparece en el Canal de las Artes es porque hasta ahí le reconocen valor, independientemente del origen de su factura.

[@user-iq4tt9lq7b]

Хороший перевод, однако на 13:29 - ошибка в переводе, - женщинам с вёдрами, пришедшими за водой, Водонос говорит: "Подождёте! Подождёте!..." а не то, что в субтитрах.

[@Anonimnyytovarishch]

Very funny

[@johnfalstaff2270]

Stalinism from the brighter side. This a very good movie however...

[@aleksandrsseffers7938]

Es valerjanam skrabam. Es sūtīšu filmu Volga Volga no seffera alelsandra senka

[@dafyduck79]

Stalin favorite movie, just wondering how many death sentences he subscribed while watching the film

[@pavelgatynya9808]

zero

[@dimamal]

Thousands. The operator of the movie was shot the same year this movie came out, and there were many others like him.

[@Diogenes_Lantern.]

@@pavelgatynya9808 Found the communist!

[@bzarrazb1648]

@@dimamalwho are you talking about, because nobody died the same year this movie came out that was related to this film lol

[@lnaa3894]

¿Hay música ahora en Rusia? 😂😂

[@superdevton1137]

Kaiserreich brought me here

[@polskabalaclava]

"Funny enough to make the Vozhd smile"

[@bzarrazb1648]

a flavor event or something?

[@drewno2601]

Jaki ten język jest paskudny! Moja matko!

[@warlordabdi]

Apparently one of Stalin's favorite movies. He liked it so much that the director didn't end up disappearing.

[@svetv2]

Товарищ Сталин должен иметь улыбку в своей злой жизни....

[@pavelgatynya9808]

don't compare your sad and filthy life to the Greatest Leader of all times!!!!

[@guidooctavio3982]

Nothing to relax watching such good film after you killed thousends in gulag

[@tatianabogdanova7166]

Sì, milioni e milioni! Tutte queste invenzioni calunniose dei bugiardi patentati - solzenitsin e khruscjov - (volutamente con le lettere minuscole i cognomi di queste carogne) sono state da tempo smentite dalle ricerche negli Archivi dello Stato dagli Storici seri e publicate.