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Love's Berries

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Ягoдка любви / Ягідка кохання (Love's Berries)
Directed byOleksandr Dovzhenko
Written byOleksandr Dovzhenko
StarringMargarita Chardynina-Barska
Dmitri Kapka
Maryan Krushelnytsky
Nikolai Nademsky
Ivan Zamychkovsky
CinematographyDanylo Demutsky
Edited byOleksandr Dovzhenko
Distributed byVUFKU-Odessa
Release date
  • 1926 (1926)
Running time
25 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent film
Russian intertitles

Love's Berries (Russian: Ягoдка любви, romanizedYagodka lyubvi, Ukrainian: Ягідка кохання, romanizedYahidka kokhannia) is a 1926 Soviet comedy film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko. The film was Dovzhenko's debut, and the screenplay was written in three days.[1] It deals with a dandified barber's attempts to get rid of his "love berry" — his illegitimate offspring.[2]

Plot

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Hairdresser Jean Colbasiuc learns from his girlfriend about an unexpected materialization of their child. Not ready to be a father, the young man tries to get rid of the baby left in his care. After a few unsuccessful attempts to place the baby onto unsuspecting citizens, by this time Colbasiuc receives a notice from the People's Court, agrees to the registration of marriage and only then learns from Lisa that the child, who served as a catalyst for the incident, was borrowed by her from her Aunt.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 219.
  2. ^ "Ягодка любви". Russia-K.
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