Bountiful Summer () is a 1951 Soviet comedy drama film directed by Boris Barnet and starring Nina Arkhipova, Nikolay Kryuchkov and Viktor Dobrovolsky. The film is set on a collective farm in Ukraine.
It was shot at the Kiev Film Studio in 1950, but released the following year. It was also released in America the same year in a subtitled version by Artkino Pictures. The film was shot using a version of the sovcolor process.
Cast
Nina Arkhipova as Vera Groshko
Nikolay Kryuchkov as Nazar Protsenko
Viktor Dobrovolsky as Ruban
Marina Bebutova as Oksana Podpruzhenko
Anton Dunajsky as Prokopchuk
Georgi Gumilevsky as Musi Antonovich
Alla Kazanskaya as Zoological technician
Muza Krepkogorskaya as Darka
Mikhail Kuznetsov as Peter Sereda
Vera Kuznetsova as Ekaterina Matveievna
Yelena Maksimova as Kolodchka
Konstantin Sorokin as Teslyuk
Mikhail Vysotsky as Podpruzhenko
Zoya Tolbuzina as Vera
References
Bibliography
Peter Kenez. Cinema and Soviet Society: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin. I.B.Tauris, 2001.