Wedding in Malinovka (Russian: Свадьба в Малиновке, Svadba v Malinovke) is a 1967 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Andrei Tutyshkin based on an operetta by Boris Aleksandrov adapted by Leonid Yukhvid.
With power alternating almost daily between Soviet and Ukrainian nationalist forces, the villagers of Malinovka are never sure who is in charge, so they modify their behaviour and dress accordingly.
Despite the hardships of war, love blossoms between the shepherd Andreyka and Yarinka, the daughter of a revolutionary exiled to Siberia during the Tsarist era.
Frightened, Yarinka escapes into the forest, where she encounters a small detachment of Red Army cavalry, scouts sent by Grigory Kotovsky's forces.
His strategy involves catching the bandits off guard when they are drunk, while he delivers grandiose toasts, charms the crowd with his refined manners, and discreetly disables the gang's machine guns.