In a small village, a bureaucrat in charge of fostering the local arts and crafts dreams of being promoted to a job in Moscow. That promotion does not come, but he is invited to select a team of artists to take part in a contest of amateur art being held in the Soviet capital. There is a quarrel among the artists which results in the local orchestra being the only ones selected to go. The folk artists will not take that sitting down, and decide to go by sailboat (the others travel on an old steamboat). The local postwoman, who is also a singer, gets separated from her fiancee: he boards the steamboat and she, the sailboat. She has composed a song which eventually becomes the orchestra's chosen entry in the contest. She at first will not reveal she is the songwriter, attributing its authorship to someone else instead.
Musical comedy which reportedly was produced with the intent of showing Soviet peasants and villagers as happy people. The film is very energetic and has nice visuals along the titular river. The songs are nice too. The script is very unsophisticated, but I admit there may be dialogue which simply was not translated in the subitles, and therefore escaped me altogether. This seems to have been a very popular movie, but it is rather lacking in substance and mediocre in artistry.
Rating: 35
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