Yasha Toporkov (lost Soviet drama film; 1960)

The film's theatrical poster

Status: Lost

Yasha Toporkov (Russian: Яша Топорков) is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by Yevgeny Karelov and produced by Mosfilm.

Plot

Yasha Toporkov is in love with a cheerful girl named Marisha. He is young, happy and satisfied with life. Recently, Marisha became his wife. Yasha is also happy with his work. Everyone knows Toporkov at the construction site: his team came out on top. And about that "left outfit", according to which the foreman wrote him extra money, Yasha had long forgotten. Nevertheless, it is precisely because of this that an accident occurs at the construction site, a welder dies and the site foreman Mirzoyan is removed from the leadership^[1].

Cast

Yasha Toporkov: Stanislav Khitrov
Marisha: Nina Mager
Silukh: Nikolay Kryuckov
German: Valentin Zubkov
Tasya: Lidia Smirnova
Pchela: Nikolay Novlyansky
Mirzoyan: Frunze Dovlatyan
Dima: Nikolay Smorchkov
Igor: Victor Markin
Petya: Aleksey Kozhevnikov
Sasha: Yevgeny Kudryashev
Inspector: Boris Kordunov
Chef Engineer: Petr Lyubeshkin
Engineer: Petr Sobolevsky
Prosha: Yuri Nikulin

Crew

Director: Yegeny Karelov
Script: Lev Kokin & Galina Kokina
Music: Moisey Weinberg
Cinematography: Era Salevera
Production Designers: Mikhail Karyakin & Ivan Plastinkin
Film Company: Mosfilm
Duration: 80 minutes

History

The film was theatrically released on May 10th, 1960 in Murmansk theatre "Rodina"^[2]. It also appeared in Magnitogorsk TV on August 9th, 1965 after its theatrical release^[3]. But the film was never released on home video.

Availability

Currently, only posters and stills from the film are available online. It is known that his copy is kept in Gosfilmofond^[4]. There is a lot of false leads about film; for example, other films with a similar duration are uploaded on various sites and they pretend to be as if is a Yasha Toporkov, but actually they are a deception.