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Svadba

  • 2000
  • 1h 54m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
1.3K
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Marat Basharov and Mariya Mironova in Svadba (2000)
ComedyDrama

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The min... Read allThe beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gi... Read allThe beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-cl... Read all

  • Director
    • Pavel Lungin
  • Writers
    • Aleksandr Galin
    • Pavel Lungin
  • Stars
    • Marat Basharov
    • Mariya Mironova
    • Andrey Panin
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    1.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pavel Lungin
    • Writers
      • Aleksandr Galin
      • Pavel Lungin
    • Stars
      • Marat Basharov
      • Mariya Mironova
      • Andrey Panin
    • 10User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Marat Basharov
    • Mikhail 'Mishka' Krapivin
    Mariya Mironova
    • Tanya
    Andrey Panin
    Andrey Panin
    • Garkusha
    Aleksandr Semchev
    Aleksandr Semchev
    • Borzov
    Vladimir Simonov
    Vladimir Simonov
    • Borodin
    Mariya Golubkina
    Mariya Golubkina
    • Sveta
    Natalya Kolyakanova
    Natalya Kolyakanova
    • Rimma
    Elena Novikova
    • Zoika
    Vladimir Kashpur
    Vladimir Kashpur
    • Mishka's Grandfather
    Vladimir Salnikov
    • Mishka's Father
    Galina Petrova
    Galina Petrova
    • Mishka's Mother
    Marina Golub
    Marina Golub
    • Café manager
    Ilya Rutberg
    Ilya Rutberg
    • Kamussidi
    Oleg Esaulenko
    Oleg Esaulenko
    • Svetlanov
    • (as Oleg Yessaoulenko)
    Nadezhda Markina
    Nadezhda Markina
    • Valka
    Pavel Poymalov
    Pavel Poymalov
    • Tolya
    • (as Pavel Polmatov)
    Alexei Mironov
    • Old policeman
    Valeriy Syomin
    • Father Nikolai
    • Director
      • Pavel Lungin
    • Writers
      • Aleksandr Galin
      • Pavel Lungin
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    9Roemer

    A Russian Party for All

    This amazing comedy mocks all film rules, giving you hardly any opportunity to predict what comes next. This wedding is a wodka-loaden, Russian, chaotic party with a bride worth alone to watch the film for, amazing scenes (like in the orphanage), with extreme characters who never become unreal. It's very warm, very funny, sometimes even scary although nothing really extreme happens. Weird things happen, though. The movie starts with Tanya, a supermodel, returning to her home village from Moscow, looking for a shy mineworker she was in love with when she was 14, and making him a proposal: flip a coin, heads is marrying, tails is not marrying. Later on, you'll understand why. You'll love this film if you can enjoy movies that are not by-the-book.
    8Ehrgeiz

    Watch this one!

    I never heard of that russian movie until I saw it in T.V. The Director matches it perfectly to connect a typical wedding comedy with critics on the (many) social problems in Russia. You have it all: The rich mafiosis, the corrupt policists, the poverty of the workers, the alcoholism, the decline of social institutions. But despite all, it is very positive movie - because of the hero Mischa, the husband, who gives never up, but also tries to stay brave and not to become a gangster. The movie is in its original russian way a bit similar to the blockbuster "monsoon wedding" from India. But I think "Russian Wedding" is the better movie, more funny, more cynical, more realistic.

    E.G.: the bride maria mironova looks like an angel.
    9lee_eisenberg

    anthropological wedding

    Pavel Lungin's "Svadba" ("The Wedding" in English) is mainly about a wedding, but also shows a contrast between the different kinds of worlds in Russia. Tanya, having worked as a model in Moscow, returns to her economically depressed hometown and decides to marry a friend from school. However, a series of issues arise as they get ready for the wedding.

    Although we see the wedding and all its Russian traditions, the movie also looks at issues of corruption and the general hopelessness in this mining town. The opening scene (where the glamorous Tanya is on a bus with a bunch of gruff people) makes the contrast very clear. And then there's a bunch of stuff that we learn about the characters over the course of the movie.

    I recommend it.
    ggrubane

    Excellent movie, the one to watch and think about

    First of all, through the entire movie I felt like I have already seen this movie in some sense. After I have finished watching it, I realized it - Lars Von Trier, Celebration. And it was not the script, it was that "documentary" style that made me watch the movie without uttering a single word. "Marriage" puts you in the middle, not only you watch it but you live it with the characters.

    I have lived in the largest coal-mining region in Ukraine for a long time. 95% of the situation in the movie is true.

    I think that the casting was excellent, militia major is more than believable, Marat Basharov is very sincere, Andrei Panin is a natural "russian soul".

    I totally recommend this movie to everybody !
    7Paolo R.

    Sad and entertaining at the same time.

    The same theme as "A Wedding" by Robert Altman, but with the much sadder social context of contemporary Russia. Communism might be finished (notwithstanding the odd hammer and sickle still showing here and there), but the quality of life of the people has not improved - with the only exception of mafia-stile capitalists. Towards the end of the film the chief of police says excitedly: "I AM BACK !", and this might be the sad reflection of the author on the future of the country (not necessarily back to Communism, that is, but to an authoritarian regime of sort).

    And still, the people maintain a sort of desperate cheerfulness - made of jokes, drinking, music, dancing and sex. If you liked "Black Cat, White Cat" by Emir Kusturica (or the wedding scene in Underground) you will like this film.

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      In the movie you see worker waiting their wage. It's seems surreal these days, but happened in soviet times that payday was delayed for many months.

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 27, 2000 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Russia
      • Germany
    • Official site
      • Arne Hoehne - press kit
    • Language
      • Russian
    • Also known as
      • The Wedding
    • Filming locations
      • Tula, Tula Oblast, Russia
    • Production companies
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Canal+
      • Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP)
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $16,799
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,822
      • Sep 29, 2000
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 54m(114 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1
      • 1.85 : 1

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