Editing Musical film (section)

===Ivan Pyryev===
The other director of musical films was [[Ivan Pyryev]]. Unlike Aleksandrov, the focus of Pyryev's films was life on the collective farms. His films, ''Tractor Drivers'' (1939), ''The Swineherd and the Shepherd'' (1941), and his most famous, ''[[Cossacks of the Kuban]]'' (1949) all starred his wife, [[Marina Ladynina]]. Like in Aleksandrov's ''Bright Path'', the only choreography was the work the characters were doing on film. Even the songs were about the joys of working.

Rather than having a specific message for any of his films, Pyryev promoted Stalin's slogan "life has become better, life has become more joyous."<ref>Joseph Stalin. Speech at the Conference of Stakhonovites (1935)</ref> Sometimes this message was in stark contrast with the reality of the time. During the filming of ''Cossacks of the Kuban'', the Soviet Union was going through a postwar famine. In reality, the actors who were singing about a time of prosperity were hungry and malnourished.<ref>Elena Zubkova. Russia After the War: Hopes, Illusions, and Disappointments, 1945–1957 (armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998), 35</ref> The films did, however, provide escapism and optimism for the viewing public.