- Volga-Volga
Infobox Film
name = Volga-Volga
image_size = 200px
caption = VHS cover
director = Grigori Aleksandrov
producer =
writer =
narrator =
starring =Lyubov Orlova Igor Ilyinsky
music =Isaak Dunayevsky
cinematography =
editing = Yeva Ladyzhenskaya
distributor =
released = flagicon|USSRApril 24 , fy|1938
flagicon|USAMay 16 , fy|1941
runtime = 104 min.
country = USSR
language = Russian
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:143176
imdb_id = 0030947"Volga-Volga" is a Soviet comedy directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, released in
April 24 , fy|1938. It centres around a group of amateur performers on their way toMoscow to perform in a talent contest called the Moscow Musical Olympiad. Most of the action takes place on a steamboat traveling on theVolga River . The lead roles were played by Alexandrov's wifeLyubov Orlova andIgor Ilyinsky .The villain in the film is a corrupt bureaucrat, and thus at the end of the story, the characters sing to the audience that reporting such bureaucrats to allow for their removal is appropriate, and compare this action to using a
mop . As this word, in theRussian language , was the same as "purge",Fact|date=February 2007 and asJoseph Stalin was the dictator of theSoviet Union at the time, this musical number serves as politicalpropaganda in favour of theGreat Purge s.Fact|date=February 2007According to
Lyubov Orlova , the name of the film is taken from popular Russian folk song, "Stenka Razin ", that Alexandrov sang while rowing withCharlie Chaplin upon theSan Francisco Bay . Chaplin jokingly suggested the words for a title of a movie, but Alexandrov took it seriously and named his new film "Volga-Volga". [cite web|url = http://sallymorgan.narod.ru/pressa.html|title = Борис Виленкин: "КАК СТРЕЛЯЛИ ЛЮБОВЬЮ ОРЛОВОЙ" - "КП" от 15.04.1994|language = Russian]References
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