THE FORTY-FIRST (drama, directed by Grigory Chukhrai, 1956)

Description:

The film is based on the story of the same name by B. Lavrenev. A detachment of Red Army men is moving along the white sands of Central Asia, pursued by the whites, dying of thirst. The best rifleman of Maryutka's detachment has forty killed White Guards on the battlefield. In the last battle to capture the caravan, the white lieutenant-aristocrat Govorukha-Otrok was taken prisoner. He will be forty-first ... Director: Chukhrai Grigory Screenwriter: Koltunov Grigory Composer: Kryukov Nikolay Operator: Urusevsky Sergey Set Designers: Stepanov Konstantin, Kamsky Vladimir Cast: Strizhenov Oleg, Netrebin Daniil, Izvitskaya Izolda, Lyubeshkin Petr, Dupak Nikolay, Zakharchenko Vadim, Grechany Alexander, Zharkimbaev Kirei, Kokorin Anatoly, Kovylin Lev, Kryuchkov Nikolay, Romanov Yuri, Sardarbekova T., Armuralin As Vladimir ), Shapovalov Georgy