Love's Berries

Ягoдка любви / Ягідка кохання (Love's Berries)
Directed by	Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Written by	Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Starring	Margarita Chardynina-Barska Dmitri Kapka Maryan Krushelnytsky Nikolai Nademsky Ivan Zamychkovsky
Cinematography	Danylo Demutsky
Edited by	Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Distributed by	VUFKU-Odessa
Release date	1926 (1926)
Running time	25 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent film Russian intertitles

Love's Berries (Russian: Ягoдка любви, romanized: Yagodka lyubvi, Ukrainian: Ягідка кохання, romanized: Yahidka kokhannia) is a 1926 Soviet comedy film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film was Dovzhenko's debut, and the screenplay was written in three days. It deals with a dandified barber's attempts to get rid of his "love berry" — his illegitimate offspring.

Plot

Hairdresser Jean Colbasiuc learns from his girlfriend about an unexpected materialization of their child. Not ready to be a father, the young man tries to get rid of the baby left in his care. After a few unsuccessful attempts to place the baby onto unsuspecting citizens, by this time Colbasiuc receives a notice from the People's Court, agrees to the registration of marriage and only then learns from Lisa that the child, who served as a catalyst for the incident, was borrowed by her from her Aunt.

Cast

• Maryan Krushelnitsky as Jean Kolbacjuk (as Maryan Krushchelnitsky)
• Margarita Barskaya as Young woman
• Dmitriy Kapka as Toys salesman
• Ivan Zamychkovsky as Tolstjak
• Volodimir Lisovsky as Old man on whom the fat man offloads
• A. Belov as Fat client
• L. Chembarsky as Fop on whom the fat man offloads
• N. Zemgano as Photographer
• K. Zapadnaia as Girl on the boulevard
• Nikolai Nademsky as Seltzer water salesman

External links

• Love's Berries at IMDb