Late for a Date
Late for a Date (Девушка спешит на свидание; literally Girl in a hurry for a date) was a Soviet film comedy, premiered on 23 August 1936. A new print was issued in 1987, completely redubbed apart from the songs performed by Efrem Flaks.
Plot
Professor Leonid S. Fedorov and Nikolai Gurov, a cobbler at "Moskooppromsoyuza", both set off for the resort at Yessentuki. They have both left their passports at home and their wives both take them into the post-office to send them. The girl addressing the two envelopes is distracted by a phone conversation about a date and mistakenly sends the professor's passport to the cobbler and vice versa. After several comedic misunderstandings, the two men's wives arrive at the resort and clarify everything.
Cast
- Boris Petker - Professor Fyodorov
- Mikhail Rostovtsev - Gurov
- Maria Barabanov - the girl in the post-office
- Vera Streshneva - Gurov's wife
- E. Pluta - Fyodorov's wife, Vera
- Alexander Beniaminov - telegraphist
- Andrei Kostrichkin
- Iona Bij-Brodsky - doctor
- Mikhail Rozanov - bootblack
- Arnold Arnold - cameo
- Eugene Golynchik
- Stepan Kayukov - Fyodorov's colleague
- Irina Murzaeva - cameo
- Giorgi Georgiou
- Erna Mashkevich - girl
- Petr Hoffmann - cameo
- Andrei Apsolon - cameo
Crew
- Screenwriter - Vasily Zorich
- Directors - Mikhail Verner, Sergei Sidelёv
- Assistant director - I. Shchipanov
- Camera operator - Andrei Bulinskiy
- Artist - Semyon Mandel
- Composer - Isaac Dunaevsky
- Songwriter - Vasily Lebedev-Kumach
- Production Director - Eremei Lagansky