Short description of the film "It was in Penkovo." Actors and roles

For more than five decades, the Soviet melodrama "The Case Was in Penkovo" has not disappeared from the screens. Actors, whose photos are now in front of you, performed the main roles in this film, their faces are probably familiar to all the movie fans.

The picture was shot according to the story of S. Antonov, she still has not lost the love of the audience. The film premiered in 1958. Filming took place in a small village in the suburbs, the actors, along with the director Stanislav Rostotsky , also lived there, they even went in clothes the same as they shot. Local people eventually became accustomed to them as heroes of the film and forgot who they really are. It is in this atmosphere that real masterpieces of cinematography are created.

Brief description of the film

You can not remain indifferent, watching the events that unfold in the film "It was in Penkovo." Actors displayed on the screen a love story, and love, as everyone knows, very often brings not only happiness, but suffering. The plot is based on the love triangle. In a small village there lives a tractor driver Matvey Morozov, the chairman's daughter is in love with him without a memory. At this time, the city comes to the city beauty Tonya. Since that time, the life of Matvei and his bride has changed.

Viewers for the first time see the protagonist Matthew when he travels by train, returning home from prison. Under the clatter of wheels, he begins to recall all those events that led him to "places not so distant". In his native village Morozov was considered the first guy in the village. He worked for ten, but he also liked to play pranks. Yes, so that the local chairman did not already know what to do with him.

Matvei once argued with the local leader Zefirov, whose tractor is more powerful, as a result, the collective farm machinery broke down. Morozov took all the blame on himself, now he faces prison, but the daughter of chairman Larissa intervened. Young people signed in secret, and the chairman had no choice but to take the guy on bail, because the son-in-law is now, after all.

Everything would be fine, but the young agronomist Tonya does not give rest to the young husband. She, trying to bring to Matvey's mind, fell in love with him, and, forgetting about his wife, he only thinks about the city beauty. Larissa, burning with jealousy, at the instigation of the local sorceress Alevtina, decides to poison the razluchnitsu. Morozov, learning about this insidious plan, hastens to the instigator to punish her for giving her a potion to his wife in order to mix it with Tone's tea.

As a result, Matvey is in prison, Larissa is waiting for the child, and Tonya blames herself for everything that happened, although she did not accept Morozov's offer to escape together and did not want to ruin his family. Now the prison term is behind, and ahead is the native village, the faithful wife of Larissa with her son and Antonina. How will the fate of these people go on?

"It was in Penkovo": actors and roles

• Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Matvey Morozov (tractor operator).
• Maya Menglet - Tonya Glechikova (agronomist-zootechnician, granddaughter of Glechikova).
• Svetlana Druzhinina - Larissa (wife of Matvei).
• Vladimir Ratomsky - Ivan Savich (chairman, father of Larissa).
• Valentina Telegina - Alevtina Vlasyevna (moonshiner).
• Anatoly Kubatsky - Vasily Glechikov (grandfather of Tony).
• Yevgenia Melnikova - Darya Morozova (Matvei's mother).
• Yuri Medvedev - Vasily Zefirov.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

The entire film crew was selected with knowledge of the matter, this greatly contributed to the success of the film "It was in Penkovo." Actors tried to glory and fully got used to the images of their heroes. The role of Matvei Morozov was performed by the young handsome Vyacheslav Tikhonov. Few people know that first invited Sergei Gurzo, but at the last minute the director preferred Vyacheslav.

Tikhonov did not want to approve the role of a tractor driver of the art council, since the refined beauty of the actor did not fit the image of the village worker. But Matvey in spirit is close to Vyacheslav, Tikhonov comes from a simple family, after school he studied at a vocational school and stood at a lathe.

For filming the actor had to change his appearance. His hair lightened a little and shaved the frown on his nose. It was believed that such eyebrows are not typical of a simple guy from the village. For Tikhonov this is the seventh work in the cinema, after it there were many films with his participation, but the role of Matvei remained for Vyacheslav's best.

Svetlana Druzhinina: from the ballerina to the president's daughters

Very beautiful actresses were confirmed for the main roles in the film "It was in Penkovo." The actors were happy to work with such girls as Svetlana Druzhinina and Maya Menglet. Artists had occasion to portray the film of their rivals, although in life they got along perfectly well with each other.

It is interesting that the wife of Tikhonov, Nonna Mordyukova, claimed the role of Matvei's wife. Also invited for testing another beautiful woman - Lyudmila Khityaeva. Everyone was surprised that the director chose a young actress Svetlana Druzhinin. Rostotsky was not mistaken, the actress very realistically played a jealous wife, who at any cost is ready to fight for her love. There were even rumors that Tikhonov and Druzhinin had a real romance, but the actors denied it.

Svetlana was at that time only one year old on the actor's course, before that she graduated from the ballet school, because of what she had a ballerina's typical gait. As the actress recalls, on the set of the film, it was very difficult for her to get used to walking as normal people, the director threatened to beat with his sticks on the legs, if she did not restructure, this was said, of course, as a joke.

Starry role of Maya Menglet

The actors of the film "The Case was in Penkov" warmly received the debutante Maya Menglet, who played the part of Antonina. The director again surprised everyone by choosing a girl who had never before appeared in a movie. In her place, many actresses were tried, including Rostotsky's wife Nina Menshikova, but in Maya Stanislav saw exactly the image of Tony who wanted to show the audience.

The director was right, Menglet coped with her task, for her this role became triumphant. Nobody's notorious beginner actress after the premiere of "It was in Penkovo" woke up famous. She was recognized on the streets, her portraits flaunted on posters, and her photographs were sold in kiosks.

"It was in Penkovo": the actors of the second plan

The success of each film depends not only on the main characters, the actors of the secondary plan also have great importance. In each picture there must always be a villain. In our case, this is the village witch and the underground samovshchitsa Alevtina. To play this character happened to Valentina Telegina. It was her heroine that incited Larissa to poison Tonya. She herself really wanted Antonina to disappear from the village, this active Komsomol member, having achieved the erection of a new club, ruined her whole business with Alevtina, finding a more worthy lesson for the youth than drinking vodka in her hut.

Because of Alevtiny, Matvei received a prison term, but if, for example, in his place was the right and cowardly Zephirov (Yu. Medvedev), then there would not be any business in the village of Penkovo at all. Zefirov, even the chairman himself calls a collective-farm weed. The guy seems to be in the forefront, but he does not cause sympathy for his law-abiding personality. Due to the fact that the director is mocking the leader of the collective farm, the picture "It was in Penkovo" was not released for a long time, but in the end the film received approval from above, and the audience enjoyed watching this touching love story.