Earthly Love


Earthy Love is a 1974 romantic drama directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova, Yury Yakovlev. Screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's novel Earthy Love. This film has got 50,9 million spectators in 1975. Yevgeny Matveyev was honored with State Prize of the RSFSR for Eathy 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