Seven brides of Corporal Zbruev

Kostya Zbruyev’s photo hit the cover of Skillful Warrior magazine, and girls from all over the country bombarded him with letters. After the discharge to the reserve, Kostya, having selected seven “offers of pure friendship”, goes on a journey from the Ukrainian steppes to the Far Eastern taiga to choose a bride.

It was not possible to meet the first candidate; the second turned out to be too timid; the third is too famous; the fourth is unbearably decent; fifth, married and not at all aware that Kostya received a letter with her signature. The sixth girl would be just the perfect couple, but then Kostya himself ruined everything - his tongue was too long. And the seventh bride did not exist at all in nature. The family happiness of Corporal Zbruev, thus, moved to an uncertain future, for the “N-th year”.

The ensemble “ Yaroslavl guys ”, popular in the 1960s, starred in the film, composed of Yu. Balashov, V. Komarov, Yu. Epifanov. During the film, the ensemble performs musical comments on current events.

• Semyon Morozov - Kostya (Konstantin Yakovlevich) Zbruev, demobilized corporal
• Natalya Chetverikova - Nadezhda (second bride, weaver from the hostel)
• Marianna Vertinskaya - Tatyana Drozdova (third bride, film actress)
• Elena Solovey - Rimma (fourth bride, nurse)
• Natalya Varley - Galina Listopad (fifth bride, Komsomol worker)
• Tatyana Fedorova - Valentina Kondratyevna Oleneva (sixth bride, peasant woman)
• Irina Kuberskaya - conductor
• Elizaveta Alekseeva - a foreigner
• Serafim Strelkov - a foreigner
• Valentina Pugacheva - saleswoman on the train
• Olga Grigoryeva - mass entertainer in the park
• Lyubov Tishchenko - girlfriend of Nadezhda
• Lyudmila Staritsyna - Lyusya
• Vasily Merkuryev - Vasily Vasilievich Lukyanov, head of the hunting farm
• Leonid Kuravlev - clergyman
• Alexey Kozhevnikov - commandant of the airport
• Anatoly Stolbov - commandant of the hostel Semyon Semyonich Evstigneev
• Anatoly Abramov - travel companion on the plane
• Valery Mironov - demobilized sergeant Orlov
• S. Achitaev - Khabibullin, a demobilized soldier
• Mikhail Vasiliev - drunk with a lighter
• Trio " Yaroslavl guys "
• The credits do not indicate :
• Yuri Radkevich - husband of Galina Listopad
• Evgenia Sabelnikova is a friend of Nadezhda
• Alexander Snykov - lieutenant at the airport box office
• Viktor Chaynikov - guide

• Scenario - Vladimir Valutsky
• Production - Vitaly Melnikov
• The main operators - Dmitry Dolinin , Yuri Veksler
• The main artist - Bella Manevich
• Director - Lev Makhtin
• Composer - George Portnov
• Sound engineer - Asya Zvereva
• Editor - Zinaida Scheineman
• Editor - Alexander Immortal
• Costumes - Natalia Landau
• Makeup - O. Smirnova, A. Ershova
• Assistants:
  • Director - V. Zhuravel, G. Ivanova
  • operator - A. Nasyrov, M. Spitsyn
  • artist - M. Suzdalov
• Set Designer - Vladimir Kostin
• Leningrad Concert Orchestra
  running - Anatoly Badchen
• Director of the painting - Igor Lebed

•   USSR (premiere May 17, 1971) - 11th place in the list of leaders of the Soviet film distribution in 1971 (31.2 million viewers) ^[1]
•   Poland (premiered in 1971) - Siedem dziewcząt kaprala Zbrujewa
•   Hungary (premiered June 29, 1972) - Az őrvezető hét menyasszonya ^[2]
• According to a survey of film critics conducted by the Sovetskaya Kultura newspaper, the film was named one of the worst in 1971 (along with the films Marine Character , Songs of the Sea , Crown of the Russian Empire, or Again Elusive and Guardian ) ^{[3 ]} .

• "The Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev" (neopr.) . State Register of Films . Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Date of treatment February 15, 2013. Archived March 12, 2013.
• "Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev" (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Movies . Encyclopedia of domestic cinema. Date of treatment July 30, 2013. Archived August 24, 2013.
• "The Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev" (English) on the Internet Movie Database