Bountiful Summer

Bountiful Summer (1951) is Boris Barnet's collective-farm musical comedy, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Home from the war, Pyotr settles into the account books of his village kolkhoz, now run by his old friend Nazar, who has risen to chairman.

The field brigades chase a record harvest while small quarrels, a flash of jealousy and quickly-mended misunderstandings unfold around them. Nikolai Kryuchkov and Nina Arkhipova head a sunny cast carried along by songs and the inevitable summer romance. It's one of Barnet's postwar pictures, and the director's warm, watchful eye matters more here than the kolkhoz plot itself. Stream Bountiful Summer (1951) online on iFILM.