November 25, 2022 06:45
The viewer did not appreciate the work of the Soviet director.
American tapes quite often do not resonate with the Russian public, as well as vice versa. And here it’s not a bad script and mediocre production, but the difference in mentality.
Thus, American viewers smashed the Soviet film “Wedding with a Dowry” of 1953, which in the USSR was considered one of the favorites among the people. In his 1954 review, the reviewer criticized the film for its straightforwardness, outright agitation and romanticization of collective farms, calling the tape a failure. The American compared the lightness of the comedy to “a ladle of lard” and concluded that “Wedding with a Dowry” was made exclusively for the “internal user”. The only plus that he noted was the game of Tatyana Peltzer.
It is also worth saying that the film is a musical comedy, in other words, a musical. And Americans have always had a particularly reverent attitude towards this genre. Therefore, for residents of the United States, “Wedding with a Dowry” looks faded once morest the background of their native paintings of the same years.
