A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Released: Dec 31, 1945
Runtime: 74 minutes
Genre: War
Stars: Olga Lebzak, Boris Zhukovsky, F. Babadzhanov, Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, I. Kudryavtseva, Larisa Yemelyantseva
Crew: Leonid Trauberg (Director), Grigori Kozintsev (Director), Grigori Kozintsev (Writer), Leonid Trauberg (Writer), Anatoli Nazarov (Director of Photography), Dmitri Shostakovich (Original Music Composer)