Don Diego and Pelagia

58m

4

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

'Don Diego', stationmaster

Volodymyr Mikhajlov

Pelagia's husband

Komsomol member

Misha, komsomol member

Village council caretaker

Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy

Alexandr Gromov

Registration and distribution official

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Yelena Tyapkina

Vera Maretskaya

Woman in the courtroom

Andrei Gorchilin

Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)

Woman in the prison (uncredited)

M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy

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

Mariya Shlenskaya

Deaf old woman (uncredited)

Crew

Yakov Protazanov

Writer, Short Story

Yevgeni Alekseyev

Director of Photography

Sergei Kozlovsky

Production Design