Austria; second half of nineteenth century
Countess von Sztolz / Natalia Selezneva / - the heiress of a rich estate, where she wants to build a soap factory, abandoning agriculture; dresses as a maid to find out the moods of ordinary people
Baroness von Cross / Svetlana Kryuchkova / - widow, who gave an announcement in the marriage section of the newspaper; impersonates a countess at the request of her friend von Sztolz
Veps / Mikhail Danilov / - the manager of the estate, who lost all his fortune on the run and decided to find a rich bride in marriage ads
Stanislav / Boris Smolkin / - Veps' nephew, who lost at cards and on the advice of his uncle decided to charm the countess
Christina / Elena Popova / - postman, kind girl, thinking about the imminent marriage
Adam / Vitaly Yushkov / - bird catcher, Christina's groom, who became a victim of the intrigues of the Countess
I must immediately admit that the operetta, which is this picture, is one of the most favorite genres of my life. Of course, this is not an opera with which I still have not been able to find a common language. But I also watch operettas with great strain, or rather, I can easily postpone them until the moment when there is a mood for such an amusing story.
The same thing happened with this movie. I started watching it a few months ago, and the process stalled already in the first ten minutes - boring, played... well, it didn't go. However, time passed, and I decided to watch this operetta, since Svetlana Kryuchkova plays one of the main roles here. And it so happened that the mood this time got, and the stars, perhaps, in the sky lined up in the right pattern, but I enjoyed watching, and never had the thought to turn off the film.
Events in the picture are comedic in nature, there is often no logic / if you start to look at it /, the plot develops rapidly and not always in normal /again, according to the logic of things / chronology. However, she and operetta - in a short period of time to cram the maximum plot twists and season them with a mass of cheerful songs / in this tape I counted them 14 /.