Komsomolsk or The Frozen North (also known a City of Youth) is a 1938 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Gerasimov. Made by Lenfilm, it is a propaganda work set against the backdrop of the construction of the new city of Komsomolsk. Although the film portrays this as the work of the Young Communist volunteers, it was in reality built largely by Gulag prisoners.[1]
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| Directed by | Sergei Gerasimov |
| Written by | Sergei Gerasimov Zinoviya Markina Mikhail Vitukhnovsky |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Gintsburg Aleksandr Zavyalov |
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| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
editThe year is 1932, and the Soviet state is developing at an exceptionally rapid pace. Numerous young men and women, who have joined the Komsomol, travel to the Amur region to build a new, vibrant city named in honor of their organization. However, not everyone shares the enthusiasm for peaceful labor. Among them is a saboteur determined to disrupt the construction plans.
Cast
edit- Pyotr Aleynikov as Pyotr
- Sergei Gerasimov
- Yevgeniya Golynchik as Cossack Woman
- Bari Haydarov as Kilia
- Leonid Kmit
- Stepan Krylov as Subotin
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Andrei Sazanov
- Viktor Kulakov as Chekanov
- Ivan Kuznetsov as Butsenko
- Tamara Makarova as Natasha Solovyeva
- Aleksandra Matveeva as Klavka
- Zula Nakhashkiyev as Kilia's Father
- Ivan Novoseltsev as Vladimir Solovyev
- A. Polibin as Organizer of Construction
- G. Shenov as Mavrin
- Valentina Telegina as Motya
- Pavel Volkov as Stepan Nikitich
- Georgi Zhzhyonov
References
edit- ^ Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment p.471
Bibliography
edit- Anna M. Cienciala, Wojciech Materski & N. S. Lebedeva. Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment. Yale University Press, 2008.
External links
edit- Komsomolsk at IMDb
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