Spring (film, 1947)

Director Arkady Gromov (played by Nikolay Cherkasov ) for his future film decides to get to know the life of scientists more closely - as he initially thinks of “hermits” who have renounced everything earthly - and for this purpose he comes to the Institute of the Sun. Actress Vera Shatrova, as a twin, looks like a prototype of her heroine - a scientist at the Institute, Irina Nikitina (both roles are played by Lyubov Orlova ). Vera Shatrova is claimed to be a scientist; but she serves in the operetta theater and she is not allowed to act in films, offering to start rehearsing the main role. It turns out that she should one day be at a rehearsal in the operetta theater and in a film studio. The way out is prompted by Leonid Maksimovich Mukhin (Nikolay Konovalov), assistant director Gromov, to persuade Irina Nikitina to replace Vera in the film studio. The scientist is hardly persuaded, and she, having arrived at the studio, agrees to make up. When reading the script, Irina Nikitina is outraged by the stilted image of scientists in it. Gromov agrees internally and decides to better study the work of scientists: to go to the Institute of the Sun on an excursion. At the same time, Vera Shatrova was forced to replace Irina Nikitina among fellow professors. Various comic situations arise, but no one notices the “substitution”; even Victor Roshchin (Mikhail Sidorkin), a close acquaintance of Vera Shatrova, who considers her Nikitina.

Arkady Gromov, having visited the Institute of the Sun, changes his views on scientists and decides to remake the script for the future film. Irina Nikitina also learns a lot of interesting things about the work of filmmakers.

But still the confusion remains: Arkady Gromov walks around Moscow at night with Irina Nikitina, believing that this is Vera Shatrova, and Victor Roshchin takes Vera Shatrova for Irina Nikitina.

At the end of the film, both heroines face the director Arkady Gromov. They offer him to indicate which of them is Vera Shatrova, and which is Irina Nikitina. Gromov, at the inspiration of the heart, faithfully points to Irina Nikitina. The confusion is clarified.

• Lyubov Orlova - Irina Petrovna Nikitina, scientist at the Institute of the Sun / Vera Georgievna Shatrova, artist of the operetta theater
• Nikolay Cherkasov - Arkady Mikhailovich Gromov, film director
• Mikhail Sidorkin - Victor Semyonovich Roshchin, journalist
• Faina Ranevskaya - Margarita Lvovna, housekeeper of Irina Petrovna
• Rostislav Plyatt - Vasily Grigorievich Bubentsov, scientific consultant, manager of the Institute
• Nikolay Konovalov - Leonid Maksimovich Mukhin, Assistant to Gromov
• Tatyana Guretskaya - Tatyana Ivanovna, assistant Gromova
• Rina Green - make - up studio
• Boris Petker - Akaki Abramovich, Director of the Operetta Theater
• Galina (Garen) Zhukovskaya - prima operetta
• Vasily Zaichikov - Ivan Nikolaevich Melnikov, Professor
• Alexey Balakin - scientist
• Valentina Telegin - Research Fellow, Institute
• Mikhail Troyanovsky - Institute Researcher
• Arkady Tsinman - Researcher, Institute
• Vladimir Golubin - concert number
• Nadezhda Kazantseva - concert number
• Vera Krasovitskaya - concert number
• Lyudmila Legostaeva - concert number
• Natalya Mikhailova - concert number
• Stepan Balashov - episode
• Boris Liberty - episode (as L. Liberty)
• B. Zhuravlev
• Alexander Khvylya - actor playing the general (not in the credits)
• Alexey Konsovsky - actor playing Gogol (not in the credits)
• Lev Fenin - actor Fenin (not in the credits)
• Alexey Balakin - academician (not in the credits)
• Sergey Antimonov - professor (not in the credits)
• Ivan Bobrov - Ovechkin (uncredited)
• Alexandra Danilova - makeup assistant (not in the credits)
• Georgy Yumatov - makeup assistant (not in the credits)
• Vsevolod Larionov - illuminator (not in the credits)
• Anatoly Dudorov - film studio worker (not in the credits)
• Claudia Korobova - an employee of the film studio (not in the credits)
• Galina Frolova - guest of Professor Melnikov (not in the credits)
• Vasily Bokarev - military (not in the credits)
• Maria Yarotskaya - Aunt Pasha, housekeeper (not in the credits)
• Manefa Sobolevskaya - passer (not in the credits)
• Marina Figner - a passerby (not in the credits)
• Lev Ivanov - episode (not in the credits)
• Lyubov Kashtanova - episode (not in the credits)

• Stage Director: Grigory Alexandrov
• The second director is Eva Ladyzhenskaya
• Screenwriters: Maurice Slobodskoy , Alexander Raskin , Grigory Alexandrov
• Composer - Isaac Dunaevsky
• Operator - Yuri Yekelchik
• Artists - Vladimir Kaplunovsky and Konstantin Efimov
• Costumer - Konstantin Efimov
• Sound engineer - Vyacheslav Leshchev
• Choreographers - Kasyan Goleizovsky and Galina Shakhovskaya

• The film is the first film in which the Mosfilm logo appeared with the sculpture “ Worker and Collective Farm Girl ” ^[1] .
• Initially, a kind of “film study” was made under the name “The Wisdom of Fiction”, which was later expanded into the full-length film “Spring”.
• L. Orlova in the film hits tap dance on the same floor as Marika Ryok in George Jacobi 's film “The Girl of My Dreams ”. Both films were shot in one pavilion: when the film crew of Grigory Alexandrov arrived there, the scenery of “Girls” still stood around ^[2] .
• In the 1950s, the film was edited. In particular, shots were taken with the name "Kaganovich Metro" at the building of one of the Moscow metro stations. The "restored" version of the 1986 film contains these frames.
• The prototype of Irina Petrovna Nikitina is the doctor of chemical sciences Z. V. Ershova ^[3] .
• The film was originally planned to be shot in color, but then this idea was abandoned at the request of Orlova, who believed that the usual black and white gamma would hide age ^[4] .

Since 1990, the film was released in the PAL system on video cassettes by the Krupnyi plan association. The film was also released on videotapes by the distributor of Kinovideoprokat, and in the early 2000s, by Master Tap.

In the 2000s, the film was restored and released on DVD by IDDK, Vostok V, Krupnyi plan, Master Teip, and on September 3, 2005, by Soyuz Video studio, in 2007 by Music- Trade "and" Video base ".

• "Spring" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"
• On the process of creating a movie on the site kinozapiski.ru
• Movie poster