Russian filmmaker Boris Barnet's Schedroe Leto was released variously in the U.S. as Beautiful Summer and Bountiful Summer. The film was Barnet's first color effort, and a beautiful job it was indeed. Essentially a musical comedy with lightly propagandistic underpinnings, the film offers a rosy-hued look at life in a typical Ukrainian collective farm. The largely female cast seemingly can't go for an hour at a time without bursting into song. Somehow, the film finds time for a plot concerning the friendly rivalry between Oksana (M. Bebutova) and Vera (N. Arkhipova), who try to outdo each other in raising livestock and harvesting grain. A romantic subplot involves Vera with mild-mannered bookkeeper Peter (M. Kuznetsov).~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: No Rating
RUN TIME: 1h 27m
RELEASE DATE: January 01, 1950
STARRING: Nina Arkhipova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Viktor Dobrovolsky, Marina Bebutova, Anton Dunajsky
DIRECTOR(S): Boris Barnet
PRODUCER(S): Kievskaya Kinostudiya
WRITER(S): Nikolai Dalyokij, Yevgeni Pomeshchikov
STUDIO: Artkino Pictures Inc.