Russian comedies about the village and village life remain very popular among viewers. They fell in love because of their kindness, ingenuity and openness. Life in the village is calm and measured, and if something happens in the same family, then this has to do with all the inhabitants. All live with one grief and one joy - nothing is concealed.
Village people are constantly on the move and hassle. Films about the village are trying to reflect these very features of the village character.
10. Girls
Girls (1961) - a film telling about the fate of two young people whom life had encountered in a remote Siberian village.
Tosya Kislitsina, a graduate of the orphanage and just graduated from a culinary school, falls into the distant Ural region upon distribution. She will have to work as a cook at a timber industry farm. Tosya is still a child, she is naive and gullible gets into the world of "adults". In a village club, she meets Ilya Kovrigin - "the first guy in the village." He, in order to laugh at her, invites to a dance.
But he does not expect such a daring refusal. Ilya’s pride is hurt. He declares and argues with a friend that in a week Tosya will fall in love with him. It just so happened that Ilya himself falls in love with a girl. And Tosya finds out that he argued at her and breaks off his relationship with him. Ilya does everything to return her location.
9. Wedding in a Robin
Wedding in a Robin (1967) - a musical comedy tells about the events in one Ukrainian village during the Civil War. The village is unlucky, the power in it is alternately seized, either by the Red Army, or by the gang of ataman Grizian. Local residents have to constantly adapt to the new authorities. They approach the problem with humor and, despite everything, are preparing for the wedding of Yarinka and Andreika. At the next seizure of the village, Gritsian liked Yarinka and he wants to make her his wife.
Active preparations for the wedding begin. Yarinka escapes from shame into the forest, where a detachment of Red Guards is deployed. The squad leader decides to help the girl and at the same time deal with the chieftain and his gang. Yarinka does not yet know that this is her father, who was once captured and fled. Under the guise of the envoy of General Wrangel, he arrives at the wedding. The plan of the commander is after the bandits drown at the wedding to defeat their garrison and save their daughter.
8. White dew
White Dew (1983) - a comedy about a rural family living in a village that they want to demolish and build multi-story buildings. The widowed Fedor Khodas has three adult sons. The eldest of them, Andrei is married and very prudent. Another son, Sashka, works and lives in the North. The younger son of Fyodor, Vasily is married, but not entirely happy in marriage, since his wife loves another. The housing problem is pushing Andrei to persuade the old man to come together to be given a good three-room apartment. But Fedor does not agree to leave his old house anywhere. Meanwhile, Vasily divorces his wife and returns to live in the village with his father, leaving the house to his wife and step-daughter. The film ends on a good and optimistic note.
7. Love and pigeons
Love and pigeons (1984), perhaps, one of the best Soviet comedies about village life. Vasily is a village worker who is fond of divorcing pigeons. His wife Nadia considers her husband to be sloppy, and all the time threatens to “tear off her head” with Vasily’s winged favorites. Baba Shura and Uncle Mitya live next door to them. The old woman is always struggling with her drinking husband, who has to be smart all the time in order to “skip” a glass or two. He always finds himself in comic situations and gets dispersal from his wife, who is afraid of death. Vasily, on the contrary, is a quiet, exemplary family man.
The rural life of the neighbors was calm and measured, until Vasily was given a ticket from work to the resort. On vacation, he meets a worker from the organization where he works, and a romance is struck between them. After the resort, Vasya does not return home, but goes with his mistress to live with her. But soon he realizes that such a life is not for him. He yearned for his village wife, children, and eccentric neighbors. Vasily firmly decides to return to his family, and between him and Nadia love breaks out again. A married couple recalls their former youth, as they went on a date to each other and begin to meet in a new way.
6. Do not go, girls, get married
«Do not go, girls, get married"(1985) - a funny comedy from Soviet cinema, telling about one" village of brides ".
Collective farm chairman Ivan Savelyevich received complaints from local girls about the lack of grooms. There were even threats that they would leave the collective farm if something did not change. The resourceful chairman quickly found a way out. He decides to create a vocal ensemble of girls and show on television. At the same time, he knocks out a permit for the construction of a livestock complex in power. The appearance of the beauties on television attracted so many suitors to the village that now a shortage began to appear in brides.
5. About businessman Thomas
About businessman Thomas (1993) - a comedy about a village peasant who decided to open a business in the countryside. Once, having arrived in the city from the hinterland, he saw a paid toilet and immediately flushed up with the thought: what if the same latrines are opened everywhere in the village? So the villager fired up with this thought that he even threw away a drink and took a loan to develop his business. Foma rebuilt the restroom in an imported fashion with newfangled equipment, and even put a monkey with a parrot there. But the local bandits do not like the flourishing business of the rural peasant. They burn an outlandish building under cover of night. Only for the businessman it turned out to be “on hand”, since he is going to open a network of such toilets for the insurance paid.
4. Do not play the fool
In the comedy "Don't play the fool"(1997) the action takes place in one of the Arkhangelsk villages where there are deposits of diamonds. To make sure of this, the Americans send their scout to this village. As a distracting maneuver, an American boat throws a two-liter barrel with alcohol, which was discovered by the main character Philemon. After such a find, the whole village walked. The American military who participated in the operation was also embroiled in history. In Russia, he finds his relatives. The result of the village party is the cessation of all rural work, which is why Filimon is being tried to be prosecuted for the mess. But thanks to the protection of local residents, the hero is freed, and he finds a new barrel of alcohol, but now thrown out by the Japanese.
3. Quadrille
Quadrille (1999) - A good fun comedy about two village couples. Lida Zvyagintseva and Valya Arefyev are unhappy with their husbands, who always drink and behave in a wrong way. Lida believes that neighbor Sanya is an ideal husband and family man. Valya has a different opinion and considers Kolya’s neighbor husband better. Already middle-aged women decide to change their halves for a while. Men have no choice but to give in to their young ladies. And so the local quadrille of four village friends is tied, who will change partners every now and then. A lonely woman, Makeevna, stealing bricks from someone else's yard, will take part in the absurd life of her neighbors.
2. No need to be sad
«Do not be sad"(2010) - a modern comedy about the village business of brothers living on the border of two provinces. Their life goes quietly and calmly and the only local entertainment is the bull Savelia - Tyson, addicted to alcohol. But the measured life of the heroes is violated by the arrival of his younger brother from the Russian capital, who decides to launch violent activity. In the center of events will be an alcoholic bull, whom a city businessman decides to acquire for conducting a "trading operation." But for this, he will need to overtake the cow across the border. The hero cleverly performs the operation and now he has in his mind a whole herd of cattle, which he will drive to his village to promote local business.
1. Moscow - Lopushki
Moscow - Lopushki (2014) new Russian comedy about rural and, at the same time, urban life. Masha and Polina are two sisters and complete opposites to each other. Simple Masha is a country girl engaged in agriculture. She meets with the local tractor driver Vasya and is happy with everything in life. City girl Polina was well attached in Moscow and meets with her married boss. But in a flash, the measured and adjusted life of the sisters is crumbling. They do, at first glance, an absurd act - change places.
Not knowing what village life is, Polina discovers a province for herself on the other hand and sets up her own tourism business here. Meanwhile, the village girl Masha will be able to realize herself in urban life. Now it will supply rural products to Moscow for sale.
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