Ryaba my Chicken
Synopsis
Assia lives in a small village with only her hen Ryaba as her sole companion. She makes her living from selling eggs and distilling liquor. One day, Assia finds a golden egg. She thinks a miracle has occurred... She offers to buy out a rich "capitalist" landowner. But the villagers, mern of her find and also make plans on how to use this "public property". In fact, the egg, stolen from the Ermitage Museum, is a fake. Fire and fights are defeated by the villagers joy of life...
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Parimedia
- Foreign production company : Russkaya rouletka
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Les Films du Losange
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Jacky Ouaknine
- Screenwriters : Andrei Konchalovsky, Victor Merejko
- Director of Photography : Evgueni Gouslinki
- Editor : Hélène Gagarine
- Sound Recordist : Alexandre Pogossian
- Costume designer : Natalia Firsova
- Line Producer : Chris Bolzli
- Press Attachés (film) : Régine Vial, Gilles Lagasse
- Production Designers : Léonid Platov, Andreï Platov
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Social comedy
- Production language : Russian
- Coproducer countries : France, Russia
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Russia)
- Production year : 1994
- French release : 08/02/1995
- Runtime : 1 h 57 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 83.738
- Visa issue date : 07/09/1994
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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"Biography of the hen
The hen always knew her lines, much more often than the actors. She had a squabble with the actress : one day, she thought Inna Tchourikova's eye was a bit of grain... Hens sleep as soon as night falls, but our hen had to wait for long endless hours. She was kept in a warm place while the other hens on the farm gradually got used to winter. But our hen had become a star, she didn't want to leave her "caravan" anymore. We had to gather all the other hens together, her doubles, so that she would come out into the farmyard a little. In the screenplay, there was a love scene between Tchirkounov's rooster and our hen Riaba. We spent txo days trying to talk the rooster into it but winter's not the best season for it. So we strapped the rooster to the hen and he fell asleep on top of her. That's why there's so little eroticism in the film..."
(Andreï Konchalovsky)
