The Foundling (1940 film)

The Foundling
Directed by	Tatyana Lukashevich
Written by	Rina Zelyonaya Agniya Barto
Starring	Veronika Lebedeva Faina Ranevskaya Rostislav Plyatt
Music by	Nikolai Kryukov
Cinematography	Semyon Scheinin
Edited by	Klavdiya Moskvina
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date	January 27, 1940 (1940-01-27)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

The Foundling (Russian: Подкидыш) is a 1940 comedy drama directed by Tatyana Lukashevich. The film was a production of Mosfilm based on the script by Rina Zelyonaya and Agniya Barto and was released on 27 January 1940.^[1] It was one of the first Russian family films. Originally in black and white, it was reproduced in colour in 2010.^[2]

Plot

Little Natasha went out and got lost in a big city. Her fate was attended by all whom she met in her fascinating, full of cheerful adventure travel. Everything, of course, ended well. And while Natasha was wandering around town, she made a lot of friends, among both adults and children.^[3]

Shot from the movie

Cast

• Veronika Lebedeva as Natasha
• Dima Glukhov as Yura, Natasha's brother
• Faina Ranevskaya as Lyalya
• Pyotr Repnin as Mulya, Lyalya's husband
• Rostislav Plyatt as bachelor
• Rina Zelyonaya as Arisha, housekeeper
• Olga Zhiznyeva as Nelia Valeryanovna, Natasha's and Yura's mother
• Andrey Starostin as football player
• Tatyana Barysheva as dentist
• Lev Anninsky as boy from the kindergarten ^[4] (uncredited)
• Anatoli Papanov as passer (uncredited)

References

External links

• The Foundling on IMDb