The Foundling

Подкидыш (1939)

Timing: 1:8 (68 min)

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• The episode featuring the meeting with the football team starred actual players from Spartak Moscow — Andrey Starostin and Stanislav Leuta.
• In the scenes where Natasha approaches a balloon vendor and meets children from a kindergarten, attentive Muscovites can make out a panorama of Chistye Prudy. In general, the film is abundant with landscapes of Moscow streets: Gorky Street, the VSKhV and Bolshaya Rostokinskaya (now VDNKh and Prospekt Mira), Manezhnaya Square, and the corner of Mokhovaya and Kominterna (Vozdvizhenka). The film's frames showcase all the Moscow transport of the pre-war years: GAZ-M1, ZiS-101, and GAZ-AA cars, ZiS-8 and ZiS-16 buses, a YaTB-1 trolleybus, an MS-1 tram car, and the lobby of the Ploshchad Sverdlova (now Teatralnaya) metro station.
• During the Great Patriotic War, the film's negative was destroyed during bombings. A positive copy survived in the State Film Fund of the USSR, which underwent minor cuts in the 1950s. In 1988, the film was restored and re-released. Some scenes and music were redubbed, shots of the Stalin monument at the VSKhV (VDNKh) were removed, and the overall sound quality remained low. This is the version that was colorized in 2010.
• The bachelor feeds Natasha canned crab and pickled cucumbers. While watching this episode, one might get the impression that it subtly emphasizes the prosperity of Soviet daily life at the time. In reality, in the 1930s, crabs were a very popular food product (something like pizza or sushi today) and were not considered a special delicacy.
• The role of the boy who wants to be 'a tank driver, a doctor, and a fire engine on weekends' was played by Lev Anninsky, who later became a renowned literary critic.

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