A Big Family Explained

A Big Family
Director:	Iosif Kheifits
Starring:	Sergei Lukyanov Boris Andreyev Vera Kuznetsova
Music:	Venedikt Pushkov
Cinematography:	Sergei Ivanov
Editing:	D. Lander
Studio:	Lenfilm
Runtime:	108 minutes
Country:	Soviet Union
Language:	Russian

A Big Family (Russian: Больша́я семья́, translit. Bolshaya semya) is a 1954 Soviet drama film directed by Iosif Kheifits. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It was based on Vsevolod Kochetov's novel Zhurbiny.

Cast

• Sergei Lukyanov as Matvei Zhurbin
• Boris Andreyev as Ilya Matveyevich Zhurbin
• Vera Kuznetsova as Agafya Karpovna Zhurbina
• Aleksey Batalov as Aleksei Zhurbin
• Sergei Kurilov as Victor Zhurbin
• Vadim Medvedev as Anton Zhurbin
• Boris Bityukov as Kostya Zhurbin
• Iya Arepina as Tanya Zhurbina
• Klara Luchko as Lida Zhurbina
• Ekaterina Savinova as Dunyasha Zhurbina
• Pavel Kadochnikov as Skobelev
• Elena Dobronravova as Katya Travnikova
• Nikolai Gritsenko as Club Manager
• Nikolai Sergeyev as Basmanov
• Larisa Kronberg as Zinaida Ivanova

Accolades

• 1955 – 1955 Cannes Film Festival – Special prize for best acting ensemble.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: A Big Family . 31 January 2009 . festival-cannes.com . 1 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150101114940/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3776/year/1955.html . dead .