Don Diego and Pelagia

Overview

The vain station master of a Russian train station out in the sticks has a quarrel with an old peasant woman and has her thrown in jail. The local party youth organisation finally manage to get her released, after having to cut through lots of red tape.

Directed by Yakov Protazanov

Top cast

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Pelagia Dyomina

A

Anatoliy Bykov

'Don Diego', stationmaster

Vladimir Mikhaylov

Pelagia's husband

I

I. Levkoyeva

Komsomol member

Ivan Yudin

Misha, komsomol member

Vladimir Popov

Village council caretaker

Osip Brik

Speaker on the dangers of bureaucracy

Alexandr Gromov

Registration and distribution official

Daniil Vvedenskiy

Watchman

Mikhail Zharov

Mikhail Zharov

Yelena Tyapkina

Priestess

Ivan Pelttser

OU secretary

Vera Maretskaya

Woman in the courtroom

A

Andrei Gorchilin

(uncredited)

Nikolay Ivakin

Komsomol member, cooperative vendor (uncredited)

Sofya Levitina

Woman in the prison (uncredited)

M. Libakov-Ilyinskiy

(uncredited)

Lev Fenin

Friend of the head of the railway section service (uncredited)

Mariya Shlenskaya

Deaf old woman (uncredited)

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