The District Secretary (1942)
A story about a Secretary of the Communist Party District Committee who is leading partisans in their fight with the Nazis during WWII.
Director: Ivan Pyryev
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Vasili Vanin as District Secretary Stepan Gavrilovich Kochet |
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Marina Ladynina as Natasha |
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Viktor Kulakov as Lt. Herman Albrecht, alias Lt. Orlov |
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Mikhail Astangov as Col. Makenau |
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Boris Poslavsky as Semyen Abramovich Rotman |
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Mikhail Kuznetsov as Sasha Rusov |
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Mikhail Zharov as Gavril Fedorovich Rusov |
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Ivan Ryzhov as партизан (нет в титрах) |
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Yevgeni Grigoryev as Vasily Gluschenko (uncredited) |
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Inna Fyodorova as Secretary Kocheta (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Antonov as Aleksandr Potapenko (uncredited) |
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Nikolai Bogolyubov as Red Army commander (uncredited) |
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Anatoly Alekseev as Smolyak (uncredited) |
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Aleksandra Danilova as Uncredited |
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Pyotr Lyubeshkin as Uncredited |
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Yevgeni Nemchenko as Sedov, partisan (uncredited) |
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Ivan Ryzhov as Uncredited |
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Konstantin Starostin as Partisan (uncredited) |
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Valentina Telegina as Uncredited |
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Vladimir Uralskiy as Kletnyuk, partisan (uncredited) |
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Leonid Kulakov as German soldier (uncredited) |
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Pyotr Nikashin as |
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Boris Feodosyev as |
| Production | Igor Chernyak | Producer |
| Camera | Valentin Pavlov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Iosif Prut | Writer |
| Directing | Ivan Pyryev | Director |
| Production | Fridrikh Ermler | Producer |
| Production | Leonid Trauberg | Producer |
| Art | Aleksei Utkin | Production Design |
| Sound | Boris Volsky | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Vyacheslav Leshchyov | Sound Director |
| Directing | M. Velichko | Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Aleksandr Ptushko | Visual Effects Director |
| Visual Effects | Boris Aretskiy | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Mikhail Krotkin | VFX Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Fedor Krasniy | VFX Supervisor |