Spring

Spring (1947)

Весна

A drab woman scientist, working on machine to harness solar energy, and a pert concert singer look-alike being courted to play her in a movie swap identities and find personal growth, professional success, love, and happiness.

Date of release
1947-07-02
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (19)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Music, Comedy, Romance
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov

Casting

Interesting facts

Springtime is a 1947 Soviet musical-comedy film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and starring Lyubov Orlova, Nikolay Cherkasov and Faina Ranevskaya.

Filming

The film marked the first appearance of the "Mosfilm" intro with the image of the famous sculpture "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman".

The picture incorporates elements of science fiction: in the fictional Sun Institute Irina Nikitina leads the scientific research on the invention of liquid that can accumulate and send out solar energy, and in the finale Nikitina puts on a successful experiment.

Filming took place in Czechoslovakia at the "Barrandov Studios" because "Mosfilm" was not yet fully restored after the war.

In the 1950s, the film was subjected to the censorship: scenes were removed with the building carrying the name "Metropolitan Kaganovich" on one of the stations of the Moscow Metro. This was due to the expulsion of Lazar Kaganovich from the ranks of the ruling elite. In the 1986 "restored" version of the film these scenes have been re-added.

"Irina Nikitina" actually does have an existing prototype - Zinaida Ershova, Doctor of Chemical Sciences.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended