A Big Family (1954)
Большая семья
The characters of the picture are a large family of hereditary shipbuilders. Three generations of the Zhurbin live under one roof: grandfather Matvei, his son Ilya, three sons of Ilya — Aleksei, Anton and Viktor. In a short time, representatives of the fourth generation are born. The share of the youngest son of Aleksei fall the most severe life tests. The background for family conflicts is the reorganization of production. All Zhurbin's have to change their profession to move on.
- Date of release
- 1954-11-05
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Iosif Kheifits
Casting
- Sergei Lukyanov — grandfather Matvei
- Boris Andreyev — Ilya Matveyevich
- Vera Kuznetsova — Agafya Karpovna
- Aleksey Batalov — Aleksei
- Sergei Kurilov — Viktor
- Vadim Medvedev — Anton
- Boris Bityukov — Kostya
- Iya Arepina — Tonya
- Klara Luchko — Lida
- Ekaterina Savinova — Dunyasha
- Nikolai Sergeyev — Basmanov
- Yelena Dobronravova — Katya Travnikova
Interesting facts
A Big Family is a 1954 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. It was based on Vsevolod Kochetov's novel Zhurbiny.
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