November 25, 2022 06:45
The viewer did not appreciate the work of the Soviet director.
American tapes quite often don’t resonate with Russian audiences, and vice versa. And here it is not a bad script and mediocre production, but a difference in mentality.
Thus, American viewers destroyed the Soviet film “Wedding with a Dowry” from 1953, which was considered a favorite of the people in the USSR. In his 1954 review, the reviewer criticized the film for its frankness, total agitation and collective farm romance, calling the tape a failure. The American likened the play’s levity to “a ladleful of lard” and concluded that “Dowry Wedding” was made solely for “the internal user”. The only advantage he noticed was Tatyana Peltzer’s game.
It is also worth saying that the film is a musical comedy, in other words, a musical. And the Americans have always had a particularly reverent attitude towards this genre. Therefore, for residents of the United States, “Wedding with a Dowry” looks faded against the background of their native paintings of the same years.
