Member of the Government
1939 film
- Iosif Kheifits
- Aleksandr Zarkhi
- M. Chernova
- Iosif Kheifits
- S. Reitman
- Aleksandr Zarkhi
- Vera Maretskaya
- Vasili Vanin
- Nikolay Kryuchkov
- Ivan Nazarov
- Valentina Telegina
Production
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Lenfilm
Release date
- 1939 (1939)
Running time
Member of the Government (Russian: Член правительства, romanized: Chlen pravitelstva) is a 1939 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits and Aleksandr Zarkhi.[1][2][3][4][5]
Plot
Aleksandra Sokolova, the wife of a peasant and a former farm laborer who becomes a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, overcoming collectivization problems and difficulties in her personal life.
Starring
- Vera Maretskaya as Aleksandra Grigoryevna Sokolova
- Vasili Vanin as Yefim Yefimovich Sokolov
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Nikita Sokolov, blond brother-in-law
- Ivan Nazarov as Fedot Petrovich Krivosheyev
- Valentina Telegina as Panya, fat woman
- Boris Blinov as The District Party Secretary
- Vasili Merkuryev as Party Undersecretary Stashkov
- Aleksey Konsovsky as Petka, teen groom
- Aleksandra Matveeva as Duska, teen bride
- Konstantin Sorokin as Kuzma, beefy kolkhoz rowdy
- Yelizaveta Uvarova as Duska's mother
- Aleksandr Melnikov as Escort (uncredited)[6]
Awards and nominations
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards — Best Foreign Language Film (nom)
References
External links
- Member of the Government at IMDb
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Films by Aleksandr Zarkhi
- Wind in the Face (1930)
- My Motherland (1933)
- Red Army Days (1935)
- Baltic Deputy (1936)
- Member of the Government (1939)
- His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (1942)
- The Last Hill (1944)
- In the Name of Life (1946)
- The Precious Seed (1948)
- The Lights of Baku (1950)
- The Height (1957)
- People on the Bridge (1960)
- My Younger Brother (1962)
- Anna Karenina (1967)
- Story of an Unknown Actor (1976)
- Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1981)
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