---
title: 'The Safety Match (1954)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Konstantin Yudin'
released: '1954-08-10'
runtime_minutes: 53
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-safety-match-1954'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048615/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Safety Match (1954)

1954 · 53 min · Soviet Union

Original title: Шведская спичка

## Synopsis

The Safety Match, or The Swedish Match is a 1954 Soviet comedy film directed by Konstantin Yudin, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1884 story of the same name.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Konstantin Yudin](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-yudin)
- **Screenplay:** [Nikolai Erdman](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-erdman)

## Cast

- [Inna Fyodorova](https://cinepixo.com/people/inna-fyodorova) as торговка
- [Vladimir Pokrovsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-pokrovsky) as доктор
- [Tamara Nosova](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamara-nosova) as Акулька
- [Alexey Gribov](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexey-gribov) as Николай Ермолаевич Чубиков
- [Yuri Leonidov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuri-leonidov) as урядник
- [Aleksandr Lebedev](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-lebedev) as лавочник
- [Nikolai Gritsenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-gritsenko) as Иван Михайлович Псеков
- [Georgiy Georgiu](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgiy-georgiu) as исправник, начальник Евграфа Кузьмича
- [Marina Kuznetsova](https://cinepixo.com/people/marina-kuznetsova) as Ольга Петровна
- [Afanasy Kochetkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/afanasy-kochetkov) as Степан
- [Mikhail Nazvanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-nazvanov) as Марк Иванович Кляузов
- [Andrey Popov](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrey-popov) as Эмиль Дюковский
- [Mikhail Yanshin](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-yanshin) as Евграф Кузьмич
- [Vladimir Kolchin](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-kolchin) as Николай Тетехов
- [Kseniya Tarasova](https://cinepixo.com/people/kseniya-tarasova) as Марья Ивановна Кляузова

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-safety-match-1954
Film facts: Wikidata (Q4521715); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.