Marriage (Russian: Женитьба) is a 1936 Soviet comedy film directed by Erast Garin.
The bureaucrat Podkolyosin is burdened by his bachelor life but is simultaneously afraid of disrupting his familiar routine.
The adaptation by Garin and Lokshina received positive feedback from notable figures such as Vsevolod Pudovkin, Sergei Yutkevich, Mikhail Koltsov, and Boris Eikhenbaum.
[5] However, in August 1937, telegrams began circulating from the Main Administration of Cinematography, criticizing the film for allegedly "distorting Gogol's work".
[5] The filmmakers' attempt to interpret Gogol’s comedy as a “socially motivated trick comedy” led, according to press reviews, to a distortion of the content of the classic work of Russian literature.The last known screening of the film by Garin and Lokshina occurred in August 1941, when a copy was in the film library of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography.