Earthly Love
{{Infobox film
| name = Earthly Love
| image = Earthly_Love.jpg
| caption = Movie poster Earthly Love
| alt =
| director = Yevgeny Matveyev
| producer = Anatoly Mironov
| writer = Yevgeny Matveyev
Valentin Chernykh
Pyotr Proskurin
| narrator =
| starring = Yevgeny Matveyev
Olga Ostroumova
Yury Yakovlev
Valeriya Zaklunna
Zinaida Kiriyenko
| music = Yevgeny Ptichkin
| cinematography = Victor Yakushev
Genadiy Tsekaviy
| editing = Maria Kareva
| studio = Mosfilm
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1975|4|24|df=yes}}
| runtime = 94 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Earthy Love ({{langx|ru|Любовь земная|Lyubov zemnaya}}) 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.{{cite web|title=Earthy Love|url=http://movie.peoples.ru/name/ljubov_zemnaja/|publisher=Peoples.Film|language=Russian|accessdate=October 27, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112120643/http://movie.peoples.ru/name/ljubov_zemnaja/|archive-date=November 12, 2009|url-status=dead}} Yevgeny Matveyev was honored with the State Prize of the RSFSR for Earthy Love and Destiny.{{cite web|title=Yevgeny Matveyev |url=http://www.rusactors.ru/m/matveev_e/index.shtml|publisher=rusactors |language=Russian|accessdate=October 27, 2009}}
Plot
A story about love, the late chairman of the collective farm Zakhar Derugin (Yevgeny Matveev) marries the young woman Maria Polivanova (Olga Ostroumova) 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
{{Cast listing|
- Yevgeny Matveyev as Zakhar Deriugin
- Zinaida Kiriyenko as Efrosinya File:Zinaida Kirienko 1.jpg
- Yury Yakovlev as Tikhon
- Valeriya Zaklunna as Katerina
- Olga Ostroumova as Manya File:Olga Ostroumova 2017.jpg
- Irina Skobtseva as Elizaveta Polivanova File:Irina Skobtseva 1966.jpg
- Viktor Khokhryakov as Chubarov
- Vladimir Samoilov as Rodion Anisimov
- Stanislav Chekan as Koshev
- Aleksandr Potapov as Nikita Bobok
- Muza Krepkogorskaya as Varya Chernaya
- Valentin Bryleyev as Kudelin
- Yuri Leonidov as Tikhomirov
- Vadim Spiridonov as Fyodor Makashin
- Ivan Bondar as Proshka
- Alexander Degtyar as supplier
- Roman Filippov as Baturin
- Zoya Isayeva as collective farmer
- Valentina Klyagina as Nadya
- Yura Kovalyov as episode
- Aleksandr Lebedev as Semyon
- Aleksandr Lukyanov as collective farmer
- Viktor Markin as episode
- Yuri Martynov as District Committee member
- Ivan Matveyev as a short collective farmer
- Grigory Mikhaylov as construction worker
- Vladimir Nosik as Yurka
- Lidiya Olshevskaya as Zakhar's mother
- Misha Orlov as episode
- Dmitri Orlovsky as District Committee member
- Valentina Pikalova as member of the Bureau of the District Committee
- Vladimir Pitsek as called on the Office of the District Committee
- Vladimir Plotnikov as Kiryan Polivanov
- Viktor Shulgin as District Committee member
- Nikolay Smorchkov as Vasily File:Сморчков Николай Гаврилович.jpg
- Lyubov Sokolova as District Committee member
- Viktor Uralsky as man at reception
- Valentina Ushakova as Nyurka Bobok
- Kirill Uspensky as episode
- Aleksandr Vigdorov as Mitry Polivanov
- Nikolai Vikulin as Vanya Deriugin
- Valentina Vladimirova as Nina Ivanovna, secretary of Bryukhanov
- Nikolai Yudin as grandfather Makar
- Valentin Chernyak as Kulikov
- Zoya Vasilkova as Emelyanova
- Vladimir Protasenko as NKVD officer (uncredited)
- Yevgeny Nikitin as German soldier (uncredited) File:Yevgeny Valentinovich Nikitin.jpg
}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0166697|Lyubov zemnaya}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091112120643/http://movie.peoples.ru/name/ljubov_zemnaja/ Earthy Love:Film.Peoples] {{in lang|ru}}
- [http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/3592/annot/ Earthy Love: Kino-teatr.ru] {{in lang|ru}}
Category:1970s historical drama films
Category:1970s historical romance films
Category:1974 romantic drama films
Category:1970s Russian-language films
Category:Soviet historical drama films
Category:Soviet romantic drama films
Category:Russian-language historical romance films
Category:Russian-language historical drama films
Category:Russian-language romantic drama films
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