Martin Borulya is a 1953 Soviet comedy drama film directed by Aleksei Shvachko and Gnat Yura and starring Yura, Varvara Chayka and Olga Kusenko.
The protagonist, Martyn Borulya, a minor landowner, dreams of acquiring noble status.
With the help of a rogue "ablat," he resorts to all possible means to achieve his goal: he acquires a forged document claiming noble ancestry, attempts to remodel his house in a noble style, secures a job for his son by fair means or foul, and plans to marry his daughter Marisya off to a "noble" registrar, Natsiyevsky.
The efforts to obtain nobility lead to Borulya’s financial ruin and only bring him misfortune.
Under pressure from his democratic friends and family members, who do not share his dream of becoming nobility, Borulya makes a conscious effort and burns the documents on which he had hoped to base his claim to noble rights.