Volga Volga by Grigory Alexandrov

pm, 1 November, Sunday Said to be Stalins favourite film, this was first released in 1938. It tells of the adventures of two amateur theatrical choirs from a remote town in the Urals, who are on their way to perform at the Moscow Musical Olympiad. They dream of competing in a race up the Volga River to prove their talent to a group of bureaucrats. Orlova plays the heroine Strelka, a blonde exercise teacher, alongside Ilinsky who plays Byvalov, a manufacturer of musical instruments who dreams of formin