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Russian comedies about the village and village life remain very popular among TV viewers. They fell in love because of their kindness, ingenuity and openness. Life in the village is calm and measured, and if something happens in one family, then it is relevant to all residents. Everyone lives with one grief and one joy – it is impossible to hide anything.
Village people are constantly on the move and busy. Films about the village try to reflect precisely these traits of the village character.
10 Girls
Girls (1961) – a film that tells about the fate of two young people whom life pushed together in a remote Siberian village.
Tosya Kislitsina, a graduate of an orphanage and just graduated from a culinary school, ends up in a distant Ural region during distribution. She will work as a cook in a timber industry enterprise engaged in timber harvesting. Tosya is still a child, she is naive and gullible and enters the world of “adults”. In the village club, she meets Ilya Kovrigin – “the first guy in the village.” He invites her to dance to laugh at her.
But don’t expect such a bold rejection. Ilya’s pride is hurt. He declares and argues with a friend that in a week Tosya will fall in love with him. It just so happened that Ilya himself falls in love with a girl. And Tosya finds out that he argued with her and breaks off relations with him. Ilya does everything to return her location.
9. Wedding in the robin
Wedding in the robin (1967) – a musical comedy tells about the events in a Ukrainian village during the civil war. The village is unlucky, power in it is alternately seized, either by the Red Army or by the gang of Ataman Gritian. Local residents have to constantly adapt to the new bosses. They approach the problem with humor and, in spite of everything, prepare for the wedding of Yarinka and Andreika. At the next capture of the village, Gritsian liked Yarinka and he wants to make her his wife.
Active preparations for the wedding begin. Yarinka flees from shame into the forest, where a detachment of Red Guards is stationed. The squad leader decides to help the girl and at the same time deal with the ataman and his gang. Yarinka does not yet know that this is her father, who was once captured and fled. Disguised as an envoy of General Wrangel, he arrives at the wedding. The commander’s plan – after the bandits get drunk at the wedding, defeat their garrison and save their daughter.
8. White Dew
White Dew (1983) – a comedy about a rural family living in a village that they want to demolish and build high-rise buildings. The widowed Fyodor Khodas has three adult sons. The eldest of them, Andrei, is married and very prudent. Another son Sasha works and lives in the North. The younger offspring of Fedor, Vasily is married, but not entirely happy in marriage, as his wife loves another. The housing issue prompts Andrey to persuade the old man to move in together so that they will be given a good three-room apartment. But Fedor does not agree to leave his old house anywhere. Meanwhile, Vasily divorces his wife and returns to live in the village with his father, leaving the house to his wife and step-daughter. The film ends on a good and optimistic note.
7. Love and Pigeons
Love and Pigeons (1984), perhaps one of the best Soviet comedies about village life. Vasily is a village worker who is fond of breeding pigeons. His wife Nadya considers her husband a slob, and all the time threatens to “tear off the heads” of Vasil’s winged pets. Baba Shura and Uncle Mitya live next door to them. The old woman fights all the time with her drinking husband, who all the time has to be smart in order to “miss” a glass or two. He always gets into comical situations and gets dispersed by his wife, whom he is scared to death. Vasily, on the contrary, is a quiet exemplary family man.
The rural life of the neighbors proceeded calmly and measuredly, until Vasily is given a ticket from work to the resort. On vacation, he meets with a worker from the organization where he works, and between them an affair begins. After the resort, Vasya does not return home, but goes with his mistress to live with her. But soon he realizes that such a life is not for him. He yearned for his country wife, children, and eccentric neighbors. Vasily firmly decides to return to the family, and love flares up again between him and Nadia. A married couple reminisces about their former youth, how they went on a date to each other and begin to meet in a new way.
6. Do not go, girls, get married.
«Do not go, girls, get married.“(1985) – a fun comedy from Soviet cinema, telling about one “village of brides.”
Collective farm chairman Ivan Savelyevich received complaints from local girls about the lack of suitors. There were even threats that they would leave the collective farm if something did not change. The resourceful chairman quickly found a way out. He decides to create a vocal ensemble of girls and show it on television. At the same time, he knocks out from the authorities permission to build a livestock complex. The performance of beauties on TV attracts so many suitors to the village that now there is a shortage of brides.
5. About businessman Foma
About businessman Foma (1993) – a comedy about a village man who decides to open a business in the countryside. Once, having arrived in the city from the outback, he saw a paid toilet and immediately caught fire with the thought: what if the same latrines are opened everywhere in the village? So the villager caught fire with this idea that he even quit drinking and took a loan to develop his business. Foma rebuilt the restroom in an imported fashion with newfangled appliances and even settled a monkey with a parrot there. But the local bandits do not like the flourishing business of a rural peasant. They burn the outlandish structure under the cover of night. Only for the businessman it turned out to be “on hand”, since he is going to open a network of such toilets with the paid insurance.
4. Don’t play the fool
In the comedyDon’t play the fool“(1997) the action takes place in one of the Arkhangelsk villages, where there are diamond deposits. To make sure of this, the Americans send their scout to this village. As a diversion, the American boat throws out a two-hundred-liter barrel of alcohol, which was discovered by the main character Filimon. After such a find, the whole village walked. The American soldier who participated in the operation was also involved in the story. In Russia, he finds his relatives. The result of the village party is the cessation of all rural work, because of which they are trying to persuade Filimon to criminal liability for the mess. But thanks to the protection of local residents, the hero is released, and he finds a new barrel of alcohol, but now thrown out by the Japanese.
3. Quadrille
Quadrille (1999) – a kind, funny comedy about two rural couples. Lida Zvyagintseva and Valya Arefieva are unhappy with their husbands, who are always drinking and behaving inappropriately. Lida believes that neighbor Sanya is an ideal husband and family man. Valya has a different opinion and considers her neighbor’s husband Kolya better. Already elderly women decide to exchange their halves for a while. Men have no choice but to yield to their young ladies. And so the local quadrille of four village friends is tied up, who will change partners every now and then. Will take part in the absurd life of neighbors, a lonely woman Makeevna, stealing bricks from someone else’s yard.
2. Do not be sad
«Do not be sad“(2010) – a modern comedy about the village business of brothers living on the border of two provinces. Their life is quiet and calm, and the only local entertainment is the bull Savely – Tyson, who is addicted to alcohol. But the measured life of the heroes is disturbed by the arrival of the younger brother from the Russian capital, who decides to launch a stormy activity. In the center of events will be an alcoholic bull, which a city businessman decides to acquire for a “trading operation”. But for this he will need to drive the cow across the border. The hero deftly performs the operation and now he has in his mind a whole herd of cattle, which he will drive to his village to promote the local business.
1. Moscow – Lopushki
Moscow – Lopushki (2014) a new Russian comedy about rural and, at the same time, urban life. Masha and Polina are two sisters and complete opposites to each other. Simple Masha is a village girl who is engaged in agriculture. She meets with a local tractor driver Vasya and is happy with everything in life. City girl Polina settled down well in Moscow and meets with a married boss. But in an instant, the measured and well-established life of the sisters collapses. They commit, at first glance, an absurd act – they change places.
Not knowing what village life is, Polina discovers the province from the other side and establishes a personal tourism business here. Meanwhile, the village girl Masha will be able to realize herself in city life. Now it will supply rural products to Moscow for sale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5gA8nP4MtA