How the Steel Was Tempered (1942)
This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
Director:
Mark Donskoy
Writer:
Mark Donskoy
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Viktor Perest-Petrenko as Pavel Korchagin |
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Daniil Sagal as |
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Irina Fedotova as Tonya |
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Nikolai Bubnov as Artyom Korchagin |
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Aleksandr Khvylia as |
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Boris Runge as |
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Vladimir Balashov as |
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Władysław Krasnowiecki as German Major |
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Anton Dunaiskyi as Translator |
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Grigoriy Aronov as |
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Nikolai Voloshin as |
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Dmytro Kapka as |
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Boris Andreyev as |
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Boris Runge as Seryozhka Bruzzhak |
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Yelena Anufriyeva as Korchagin's mother |
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Viktor Bubnov as Artyom, Pavka's brother |
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Vladimir Kantsel as |
| Writing | Nikolai Ostrovsky | Novel |
| Writing | Mark Donskoy | Screenplay |
| Directing | Mark Donskoy | Director |
| Camera | Boris Monastyrsky | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Rafail Perelstein | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Mikhail Solokha | Production Design |
| Sound | Oleksandr Babiy | Sound Director |
| Directing | Evgeniy Zilbershtein | First Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vladimir Yakovlev | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | Mykhailo Chorny | Assistant Camera |
| Editing | N. Gorbenko | Editor |
| Directing | Leonid Man | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | A. Shamuradova | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Mikhail Levin | Executive Producer |