The Forty-First (1927)
A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.
Director:
Yakov Protazanov
Writer:
Boris Leonidov
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Ada Vojtsik as Maryutka Basova |
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Ivan Koval-Samborskiy as Lieutenant Govorukha-Otrok |
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Ivan Shtraukh as Commissar Arsentiy Yevsyukov |
| Directing | Yakov Protazanov | Director |
| Writing | Boris Leonidov | Screenplay |
| Writing | Boris Lavrenev | Book |
| Camera | Pyotr Yermolov | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Yuli Raizman | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yakov Urinov | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Moisey Aleynikov | Producer |