Hussar Ballad

Hussar Ballad

Infobox Film
name = Hussar Ballad


image_size = 200px
caption = A 1962 poster for the "Hussar Ballad
director = Eldar Ryazanov
producer =
writer = Eldar Ryazanov
Aleksandr Gladkov
narrator =
starring = Larisa Golubkina
Yuri Yakovlev
Igor Ilyinsky
music = Tikhon Hrennikov
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = Mosfilm
released = flagicon|USSR fy|1962
flagicon|USA July 13, 1963
runtime = 96 min.
country = USSR
language = Russian
budget =
gross =
website =
amg_id = 1:84337
imdb_id = 0056045

"The Hussar Ballad" ( _ru. "Гусарская баллада") is a fy|1962 Soviet movie by Eldar Ryazanov, filmed on Mosfilm. In effect, it is one of the best loved musical comedies in Russia.

With most of its dialogue delivered in verse, Ryazanov's script romanticizes the adventures of Nadezhda Durova during the Napoleonic wars. The swift paced, action packed, humor filled adventure is ingeniously mixed with light-hearted acting bravado and memorable operetta pieces. The film's musical score and songs were written by Tikhon Khrennikov.

The leading roles - those of the cavalry maiden Shurochka Azarova and the dashing hussar Dmitry Rzhevsky - were played by Andrei Mironov's wife Larisa Golubkina and the People's Artist of the USSR Yury Yakovlev, respectively. The legendary comedian Igor Ilyinsky appeared as one-eyed Field-Marshal Kutuzov.

The film is based on the play "A Long Time Ago" by Alexander Gladkov.Emil Draitser, "Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor" (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.) ISBN 0312221290, [http://www.amazon.com/gp/sitbv3/reader?asin=0312221290&pageID=S03S&checkSum=bnpW6wBpVWZjXFoJOBr9k3CXXcGmkmrxxjwVSYVqvZk= p.120] — [http://iupjournals.org/folklore/book/draitser.html a review] in "Journal of Folklore Research"]

The film proved so popular with Soviet audiences that poruchik Rzhevsky became quite a folklore character, featured in numerous jokes. See Russian jokes#Poruchik Rzhevsky for samples.

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056045/ Hussar Ballade on IMDB database]


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