Earthly Love


Earthy Love is a 1974 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova, and Yury Yakovlev. The film was a screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's novel Earthy Love, and was viewed by 50.9 million spectators in 1975. Yevgeny Matveyev was honored with the State [Prizes of the Soviet Republics|State Prize of the RSFSR] for Earthy Love and Destiny.

Plot

A story about love, the late chairman of the collective farm Zakhar Derugin marries the young woman Maria Polivanova at the height of the harvest. There is a parallel developing romance between Catherine and her sister Derugin secretary of the District Party Committee Bryukhanov. The film shows the life of the Soviet countryside in the 1930s.

Cast