The Sailors of Kronstadt
The Sailors of Kronstadt (Russian: Мы из Кронштадта) is a 1936 Soviet drama war film directed by Efim Dzigan.[1][2][3][4]
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Russian: Мы из Кронштадта | |
Directed by | Efim Dzigan |
Written by | Vsevolod Vishnevskiy |
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Cinematography | Naum Naumov-Strazh |
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Language | Russian |
Plot
The film tells about the confrontation of the sailors of the Baltic Fleet and the Yudenich formations, which besiege Petrograd.
Cast
- Vasiliy Zaychikov as Commissar Vasili Martinov (as Vasili Zajchikov)
- Georgi Bushuyev as Artyom Balashov
- Nikolay Ivakin as A Red Army Soldier
- Oleg Zhakov as Regiment Commander Draudin
- Raisa Yesipova as Mademoiselle
- Pyotr Kirillov as Seaman Valentin Bezprozvanny
- E. Gunn as Seaman Anton Karabash
- Mikhail Gurinenko as Misha, the cabin boy (as Misha Gurinenko)
- Fyodor Seleznyov as A White Army Soldier (as F. Seleznyov)
- Pyotr Sobolevsky as A Lieutenant[5]
Reception
Writing for The Spectator in 1937, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, characterizing it as being "in the tradition of boys' stories, full of last charges and fights to the death, heroic sacrifices and narrow escapes, all superbly directed", and summarizing it as an "unusual mixture of poetry and heroics". Identifying moments of humour and pathos, Greene claimed that a Fordian poetic sense (i.e. not melodic arrangement, but moral composition) had thoroughly "impregnated" the film "from the first shot to the last", and that the writing resonated with Chekhov's definition of the novelist's purpose, "life as it is: life as it ought to be".[6]
References
- Смоляне в сталинском кинематографе. Часть I
- Ко Дню ВМФ в Южном Тушине пройдут бесплатные кинопоказы
- Кинотеатр «Родина» покажет кино о революции
- В «Родине» стартовал марафон революционного кино
- Мы из Кронштадта (1936) Full Cast & Crew
- Greene, Graham (26 February 1937). "We from Kronstadt". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. Oxford University Press. pp. 133–135. ISBN 0192812866.)