Love's Berries

Ягoдка Любви / Ягідки кохання (Love's Berries)
Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko
Written by Alexander Dovzhenko]
Starring Margarita Chardynina-Barska
Dmitri Kapka
Maryan Krushelnytsky
Nikolai Nademsky
Ivan Zamychkovsky
Cinematography Danylo Demutsky
Edited by Alexander Dovzhenko
Distributed by VUFKU-Odessa
Release date
  • 1926 (1926)
Running time
 30 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Silent film
Russian intertitles

Love's Berries (Russian: Ягoдка Любви, translit. Yagodka lyubvi, Ukrainian: Ягідки кохання, translit. Yahidky kokhannya) is a 1926 Soviet comedy film by Ukrainian director Alexander 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

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, she borrowed from her Aunt.

References

  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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