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Martin Borulya is a 1953 Soviet comedy drama film directed by Aleksei Shvachko and Gnat Yura and starring Yura, Varvara Chayka and Olga Kusenko. It was made in Ukrainian at the Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv.
It is based on the eponymous play by Ivan Karpenko-Kary, staged by the Kyiv Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko.
Plot
The protagonist, Martyn Borulya, a minor landowner, dreams of acquiring noble status. With the help of a rogue "ablat," he resorts to all possible means to achieve his goal: he acquires a forged document claiming noble ancestry, attempts to remodel his house in a noble style, secures a job for his son by fair means or foul, and plans to marry his daughter Marisya off to a "noble" registrar, Natsiyevsky. The efforts to obtain nobility lead to Borulya’s financial ruin and only bring him misfortune. The tragic intertwines with the comedic. Under pressure from his democratic friends and family members, who do not share his dream of becoming nobility, Borulya makes a conscious effort and burns the documents on which he had hoped to base his claim to noble rights. The family returns to a state of well-being.
Cast
Gnat Yura as Martyn Borulya
Varvara Chayka as Palazhka
Olga Kusenko as Marysya
Sergey Olekseyenko as Stepan
Maryan Krushelnitsky as Omelko
Grigoriy Teslya as Gervasiy Gulyanitskiy
Vasiliy Dashenko as Mikola
Dmitri Milyutenko as Protasiy Penenozhka
Nikolay Yakovchenko as Trandalyov
Nikolay Svitenko as Dulskiy
Semyon Likhogodenko as Trokhim
Grigori Semyonovich Aleksandrov
References
Bibliography
Vi͡a͡cheslav Oleksandrovych Kudin. Soviet Ukrainian screen art. Mistetstvo Publishers, 1979.
External links
Martin Borulya at IMDb