The Foundling (1940 film)

The Foundling
The Foundling
Directed by	Tatyana Lukashevich
Written by	Rina Zelyonaya ; Agniya Barto
Starring	Veronika Lebedeva; Faina Ranevskaya; Rostislav Plyatt
Cinematography	Semyon Scheinin
Edited by	Klaudia Moskvina
Music by	Nikolai Kryukov
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date	January 27, 1940;
Running time	76 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

The Foundling (Russian: Подкидыш, romanized: Podkidysh) is a 1940 comedy drama directed by Tatyana Lukashevich.^[1]^[2] The film was a production of Mosfilm based on the script by Rina Zelyonaya and Agniya Barto and was released on 27 January 1940.^[3] It was one of the first Russian family films. Originally in black and white, it was reproduced in colour in 2010.^[4]

Plot

Little Natasha went out and got lost in a big city. Her fate was attended by all whom she met in her fascinating, full of cheerful adventure travel. Everything, of course, ended well. And while Natasha was wandering around town, she made a lot of friends, among both adults and children.^[5]

Cast

Veronika Lebedeva as Natasha
Faina Ranevskaya as Lyalya
Pyotr Repnin as Mulya, Lyalya's husband
Rostislav Plyatt as bachelor
Rina Zelyonaya as Arisha, housekeeper
Olga Zhiznyeva as Nelia Valeryanovna, Natasha's and Yura's mother
Victor Gromov as Nina's father
Tatyana Barysheva as dentist
Elya Bykovskaya as Nina, Yura's schoolmate (uncredited)
Dima Glukhov as Yura, Natasha's brother (uncredited)
Vitya Boyko as Alyosha, Yura's schoolmate (uncredited)
Andrey Starostin as cameo, football player (uncredited)
Stanislaus Leyta as cameo, football player (uncredited)
Nikolay Arsky as militia chief (uncredited)
Ivan Lobyzovsky as Sergeev, member of the search group (uncredited)
Lev Anninsky as boy from the kindergarten^[6] (uncredited)
Anatoli Papanov as passer (uncredited)
Fyodor Odinokov as passer (uncredited)
Oleg Basilashvili as boy on the bike (uncredited)

History

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the film's negative was destroyed during the bombing, but a preserved positive copy was found in the USSR State Film Fund.

References

^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ Из истории советского лета
^ Первый канал. Легендарное кино. «Подкидыш»
^ "Podkidysh". IMDb. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
^ Подкидыш on KinoPoisk
^ Не учить читателя читать Archived 2012-02-14 at WebCite

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[1] Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.

[2] Из истории советского лета

[3] Первый канал. Легендарное кино. «Подкидыш»

[4] "Podkidysh". IMDb. Retrieved 29 January 2016.

[5] Подкидыш on KinoPoisk

[ann-6] Не учить читателя читать Archived 2012-02-14 at WebCite

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