“The Long Way” is the first feature film of the Soviet director Leonid Gaidai (color). Filmed based on the Siberian stories of Vladimir Korolenko . Despite the fact that the plot of the film was not at all comedic, Mikhail Romm discerned the comedian’s talent as a young director and advised him to work in this direction.
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| Genre | Drama |
| Producer | |
| Author script | |
| Operator | Sergey Poluyanov |
| Composer | Yuri Biryukov |
| Film company | Mosfilm |
| Duration | 80 min |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Language | |
| Year | 1956 |
| IMDb | ID 0049149 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Camera crew
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Story
Station keeper Kruglikov was exiled to a remote Siberian village many years ago for shooting his boss, a general who demanded that he go with him as a matchmaker to Kruglikov’s girlfriend, Paradise. A political exile is brought to the station. It turns out to be Paradise. For several minutes, the former bride and groom were nearby, and then she was again taken along the stage.
Cast
- Sergey Yakovlev - Vasily Kruglikov
- Kunna Ignatova - Raisa Fedoseeva
- Leonid Gubanov - Dmitry Orestovich
- Vladimir Belokurov - Latkin, state adviser
- Nikifor Kolofidin - Spiridon Kruglikov, father of Vasily
- Alexander Antonov - Pavel Grigoryevich Fedoseyev, father of Raisa
- Georgy Budarov - a merchant
- Vladimir Pokrovsky - passing
- Ivan Ryzhov - gendarme
- Apollo Yachnitsky - Arabin
- Not listed in credits
- Alexandra Denisova - mother of Vasily [1]
- Evgeny Kudryashev - Yamshitsky
- Matvey Lobanov - singer-olonkhosut
- Ekaterina Mazurova - mother of Raisa
Camera crew
- Script writer - Boris Brodsky , Mikhail Romm
- Stage Directors - Leonid Gaidai , Valentin Nevzorov
- Director of photography - Sergey Poluyanov
- Set Designer: Alexey Utkin
- Composer - Yuri Biryukov
- Director of the picture - D. Zalbstein