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Tractor Drivers (Russian: Трактористы, romanized: Traktoristy) is a 1939 Soviet comedy drama film directed by Ivan Pyryev.[1][2][3]

Tractor Drivers
Russian: Трактористы
Directed by	Ivan Pyryev
Written by	Yevgeny Pomeshchikov
Produced by	Viktor Biyazi
Starring	Marina Ladynina Nikolay Kryuchkov Boris Andreyev
Cinematography	Aleksandr Galperin
Edited by	Anna Kulganek
Music by	Daniil Pokras Dmitri Pokras
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	3 July 1939
Running time	88 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

In the 1930s, the demobilized tank driver Klim Yarko returns to his kolkhoz on the Ukrainian steppe, where Mariana Bazhan works as the master of speed plowing. This results in her having a lot of admirers, which she does not appreciate. To dissuade her suitors, Mariana asks Nazar Duma to pretend to be her fiancé.[4]

Starring

• Marina Ladynina as Maryana Bazhan
• Nikolay Kryuchkov as Klim Yarko
• Boris Andreyev[5] as Nazar Duma
• Stepan Kayukov as Kirill Petrovich, head of the collective farm
• Pyotr Aleynikov as Savka
• Vladimir Kolchin as Kharitosha
• Olga Borovikova as Franya
• R. Dneprova-Chajka as Markovna
• Pyotr Valerianov as Granddad
• Alexei Dolinin as Firefighter
• Pyotr Savin as tankman, Klim's friend
• Artavazd Kefchiyan as tankman, Klim's friend[6]

Cultural influence

The March of the Soviet Tankmen from this film was widely used in pre-war Soviet propaganda, while other tunes became popular songs, and are still performed.

Tractor Drivers 2 was a parody film made in 1991, whose plot is loosely based on that of Tractor Drivers.

References

External links

• Tractor Drivers at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Tractor Drivers

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[ru] Трактористы

«Трактористы» — советский музыкальный художественный фильм 1939 года, поставленный Иваном Пырьевым на киностудии «Мосфильм».

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