The Girlfriends (1936)
Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.
Director: Lev Arnshtam
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Zoya Fyodorova as Zoya |
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Irina Zarubina as Natasha |
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Yanina Zheymo as Asya / Asya in childhood |
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Boris Chirkov as Senka |
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Boris Babochkin as Andrei |
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Boris Poslavsky as Silych |
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Vera Popova as mother |
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Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina as grandmother |
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Ida Antipova as Zoya in childhood |
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Dagmara Pape as Natasha in childhood |
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Konstantin Adashevsky as bailiff (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Sladkopevtsev as tavern visitor (uncredited) |
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Stepan Kayukov as tavern owner (uncredited) |
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Nikolai Cherkasov as white officer (uncredited) |
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Vasiliy Toporkov as policeman (uncredited) |
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Boris Blinov as injured commissar (uncredited) |
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Stepan Krylov as driver (uncredited) |
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Pavel Volkov as worker in tavern (uncredited) |
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Vasili Merkuryev as postman (uncredited) |
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Serafima Birman as |
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Pyotr Aleynikov as wounded |
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Vladimir Lukin as Worker from the tavern |
| Directing | Lev Arnshtam | Director |
| Writing | Lev Arnshtam | Writer |
| Camera | Vladimir Rapoport | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Arkadi Shafran | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Raisa Vasilyeva | Writer |
| Art | Moisei Levin | Production Design |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Ivan Dmitriyev | Sound |
| Sound | Ilya Volk | Sound |
| Editing | Tonka Taldy | Editor |
| Directing | Viktor Eisymont | Assistant Director |
| Art | Shelli Bykhovskaya | Assistant Production Design |
| Production | Sergei Yutkevich | Producer |
| Production | Aleksandr Gorskiy | Producer |
| Camera | G. Maksimov | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | V. Kolpinskiy | Sound Assistant |
| Production | N. Spesivtsev | Administration |
| Production | Adrian Piotrovskiy | Producer |