The Wedding (1944 film)


The Wedding is a 1944 Soviet comedy film directed by Isidor Annensky.
The film, created by the eponymous vaudeville of Anton Chekhov, the stories of The Wedding with General, Before the wedding, the novel in two parts of the Marriage of convenience skit Bride and papa is a caustic satire on the mores of the middle class philistine pre-revolutionary Russia.

Plot

The burgess Zhigalov family who have a marriageable daughter Dasha, learn to their horror that the official Aplombov who dined with them every day and established himself as a groom, is not going to marry her at all. With great difficulty Dasha's father manages to persuade the ambitious groom to propose. The groom agrees, putting the condition of compulsory attendance of the General at the wedding.
And then finally the wedding takes place. At the festive moment the chief guest has arrived—the General. A scandal erupts at the peak of merriment when it became clear that the General is not really General, but only the captain of the second rank. The wedding is ruined.

Cast