Krechinsky's Wedding (1953)

Original title

Свадьба Кречинского

Directed by

Vasili Vanin

Genre

comedy film

Country

Soviet Union

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

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How it feels

A performance of an old Russian play about a man trying to arrange a marriage to improve his fortune. Deceptions and comic misunderstandings follow as plans go awry.

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What happens

Krechinsky's Wedding (Russian: Свадьба Кречинского, romanized: Svadba Krechinskogo) is a Soviet film adaptation of the performance directed by Vasili Vanin in Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre in 1951. It is based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin. Film adaptation directed by Aleksey Zolotnitskiy in 1953. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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