Wedding in Malinovka

Wedding in Malinovka (Свадьба в Малиновке, Svadba v Malinovke) is a 1967 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Andrei Tutyshkin based on an operetta by Boris Aleksandrov adapted by Leonid Yukhvid.

The film is about a Ukrainian village during the time of the Russian Civil War. With power alternating almost daily between Soviet and Ukrainian nationalist forces, the villagers of Malinovka are never sure who is in charge, so they modify their behaviour and dress accordingly.

Cast

 * Vladimir Samoilov as Nazar Duma, Red squadron commander
 * Liudmyla Alfimova as Sofya (vocal by Valentina Levko)
 * Valentina Lysenko as Yarinka
 * Yevgeni Lebedev as Nechipor
 * Zoya Fyodorova as Gorpina Dormidontovna
 * Heliy Sysoyev as Andreyka (vocal by Mikhail Egorov)
 * Mikhail Pugovkin as Yashka the Gunner
 * Nikolai Slichenko as Petrya
 * Grigori Abrikosov as Grytsko Balyasny, or Pan-Ataman Gritsian Tavrichesky.
 * Andrei Abrikosov as Balyasny Senior
 * Mikhail Vodyanoy as Popandopulo
 * Tamara Nosova as Komarikha
 * Emma Treyvas as Tryndychikha
 * Aleksei Smirnov as Smetana
 * Margarita Krinitsyna as Redhead
 * Aleksandr Orlov as priest
 * Lyubov Tishchenko as peasant woman
 * Boris Leskin as bandit
 * Vyacheslav Voronin as Chechil

Dance scenes were cast with the participation of the Moldovan dance troupe Joc.

Cultural influence
One of the film's main characters, Nazar Duma, has a completely unrelated namesake in a different famous Soviet film, Tractor Drivers (1939). This coincidence was used in a crossover parody film, Tractor Drivers 2.