Film

Mitya

1927 · Comedy

Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever. Lost movie.

Nikolai Okhlopkov

Mitya

Tamara Adelheim

Sofochka

Mykola Nademskyi

Poet-reporter

Serhii Minin

Unknown

Anastasiya Kozhevnikova

Shurochka Gryaznova

Yuri Chernyshov

Volodya Gryaznov

Teodor Brainin

Onion-stealing Beggar

A. Gvozdeva

Shurochka's Mother

Nikolai Korn

Kazak

Volodymyr Lisovskyi

Drunk Best Man

Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

Sober Best Man

Saksaganskaya

Mitya's Mother

Aleksandr Sashin

Beggar Who Robs Mitya

Anastasii Symonov

Nervy Nobleman

Anisim Suslov

Villager

Borys Zahorskyi

Dance Steward

• Nikolai OkhlopkovDirector
• Nikolay ErdmanWriter
• Marius HoldtDirector of Photography

Release date

April 5, 1927

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Genres

Comedy