Shame (1932)
Shame or Counterplan is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s. This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Directors: Fridrikh Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich.
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Vladimir Gardin as Babchenko |
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Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as Babchikha |
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Tatyana Guretskaya as Katya |
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Andrei Abrikosov as Pavel |
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Boris Tenin as Vasya |
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Boris Poslavsky as Skvorzov |
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Mariya Pototskaya as Ego mat (as M. Pototskaya) |
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Leonid Alekseev as Direktor zavoda (as A. Alekseev) |
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Nikolay Kozlovsky as Lazarev |
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Vladimir Sladkopevtsev as Morgun |
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Yakov Gudkin as Chutochkin |
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Nikolai Michurin as Master |
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Fedor Slavski as Master |
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Pyotr Aleynikov as Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited) |
| Directing | Fridrikh Ermler | Director |
| Directing | Sergei Yutkevich | Director |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Aleksandr Gintsburg | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Vladimir Rapoport | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Iosif Martov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Lev Arnshtam | Writer |
| Writing | Leonid Lyubashevsky | Writer |
| Writing | Fridrikh Ermler | Writer |
| Writing | Sergei Yutkevich | Writer |
| Directing | Lev Arnshtam | Co-Director |
| Art | Boris Dubrovsky-Eshke | Production Design |
| Sound | Ilya Volk | Sound Director |
| Sound | Ivan Dmitriyev | Sound Director |
| Directing | Ekaterina Serdechkova | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Lydia Chukovskaya | Writers' Assistant |
| Writing | Aleksandr Panteleyev | Writers' Assistant |
| Art | N. Pavlov | Graphic Designer |
| Art | Aleksey Ushin | Graphic Designer |
| Sound | Nikolay Rabinovich | Conductor |
| Sound | Eduard Grikurov | Conductor |