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Shelmenko the orderly– a 1971 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Andrei Tutyshkin based on the comedy Grigory Kvitka-Osnovyanenko

Production: Lenfilm studio, USSR, 1971

Director:A. Tutyshkin

Screenplay by:A. Tutyshkin

Starring: M.Pugovkin, V. Dalsky, Z.Fedorova, L. Senchina, O. Polevoy, I. Ozerov, Yu. Medvedev

Duration: 89 minutes

Plot:

The action of the film "Shelmenko the Orderly" takes place at the beginning of the 19th century. Near one Ukrainian village, the military was quartered, and soon Captain Ivan Skvortsov began an affair with Prosinka, the daughter of the local landowner Kirill Petrovich Shpak.

Despite his noble origins, Captain Skvortsov was poor and therefore Shpak did not consider him a brilliant suitor for his only daughter and was going to marry her off to the nephew of another landowner, Timofey Polutskovsky.

It seemed that the captain was now in a hopeless situation, because, despite the fact that Prosinka loved him, she could not go against her parents' will. However, although Captain Skvortsov was poor, he had a very resourceful orderly Potap Shelmenko, who had a cunning plan to help his master...