Wedding in Malinovka

Wedding in Malinovka (Russian: Свадьба в Малиновке) is a 1967 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Andrei Tutyshkin based on an operetta by Boris Aleksandrov adapted by Leonid Yukhvid.

The film is about a Ukrainian village during the time of the Russian Civil War. With power alternating almost daily between Soviet and Ukrainian nationalist forces, the villagers of Malinovka are never sure who is in charge, so they modify their behaviour and dress accordingly.

Plot
During the Civil War, the Ukrainian village of Malinovka lives from one change of power to another. The hardships of the war do not interfere with the love of the shepherd Andreika and Yarinka, the daughter of a revolutionary who was exiled to Siberia under the tsar. In a quiet village there is a gang of "ideological chieftain" and a local native of Grizian of Tauride. Ataman conceived, according to the custom of that time, to establish in Malinovka an “independent power”; state-building begins, of course, with robbery and violence. Yarinka catches the eye of Gritsian and he is trying to get her consent to the wedding by threats.

The frightened Yarinka runs away into the forest, where she is met by a small detachment of red horsemen-Kotovtsi, sent for reconnaissance. She calls for help, and the squad leader Nazar Duma is developing a plan to defeat a numerically superior enemy. To do this, the girl must pretend and get married with the chieftain.

At the wedding, under the guise of the White Guard officer of Chechel - authorized baron Wrangel, Nazar Duma himself is. According to his plan, the red detachment should take the gang by surprise when everyone is thoroughly drunk, and while the brilliant staff captain makes pathetic toasts, amazes the public with high-fashioned manners and, in the meanwhile, disables gang machine guns.

It's time to start the attack, but the conditioned signal is late. Gritzian harasses Yarina, the Wrangel messenger already arouses his suspicions, and therefore Nazar alone has to engage in battle against many enemies. Help comes at a critical moment, and the bandits suffer a shameful defeat: on the one hand, they are beaten by the Duma cavalry, and on the other, the Malinovsky female “garrison” under the command of the Yashka gunner. The morning after this “wedding”, Nazar Duma, who is actually Yarinka’s father, blesses her daughter and Andrei.

Cast
Dance scenes were cast with the participation of the Moldovan dance troupe Joc.
 * Vladimir Samoilov as Nazar Duma, Red squadron commander
 * Lyudmila Alfimova as Sofya (vocals — Valentina Levko)
 * Valentina Lysenko as Yarinka
 * Yevgeni Lebedev as Nechipor
 * Zoya Fyodorova as Gorpina Dormidontovna
 * Heliy Sysoyev as Andreyka (vocal — Mikhail Egorov)
 * Mikhail Pugovkin as Yashka the Gunner
 * Nikolai Slichenko as Petrya
 * Grigori Abrikosov as Grytsko Balyasny, or Pan-Ataman Gritsian Tavrichesky.
 * Andrei Abrikosov as Balyasny Senior
 * Mikhail Vodyanoy as Popandopulo
 * Tamara Nosova as Komarikha
 * Emma Treyvas as Tryndychikha
 * Aleksei Smirnov as Smetana
 * Margarita Krinitsyna
 * Aleksandr Orlov as priest
 * Lyubov Tishchenko
 * Aleksandr Zakharov
 * Vyacheslav Voronin as Chechil
 * N. Kogan
 * B. Moreno
 * A. Pishvanov
 * Yu. Shepelev