The Straw Hat

Solomennaya shlyapka) is a 1974 Soviet musical comedy television film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze based on a play by Eugène Marin Labiche and Marc-Michel.

Charming playboy and libertine Leonidas Fadinard plans a calculated marriage to the daughter of a wealthy provincial gardener, Nonancourt.

Along the way, he stops briefly, during which his horse eats the straw hat of Madame Beauperthuis, a married woman having a clandestine rendezvous with her military lover in the woods.

Faced with the threat of exposure to her jealous husband, Madame and her lover storm into Fadinard’s home, occupy the bridal suite, and refuse to leave until he replaces the hat with an identical one.

The real tenor soon arrives, sparking chaos, and Fadinard learns the sought-after hat was gifted to the baroness’s godmother.

[5] In the episodic role of a simple lamplighter, the playwright Mikhail Roshchin appears, who then had an affair with Ekaterina Vasilyeva, who starred in the film.

[4] As a result, the film included a lot of episodes that were not in the script — for example, scenes when a wig falls off the Mikhail Kozakov's character during a duel, or when Mironov kisses Freindlich in the presence of Boyarsky.

In 2009, almost all songs were included in Isaac Schwartz' compilation Песни из кинофильмов[8] In 2021, an official soundtrack was released by Bomba-Piter [ru].

Grand Orangery, Peterhof