Overview
The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. 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.
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Vladimir Rapoport, Zhozef Martov and Aleksandr Gintsburg
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Lev ArnshtamWriter
- Leonid LyubashevskyWriter
- Fridrikh ErmlerWriter
- Sergei YutkevichWriter
- Original title
- Встречный
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 7, 1932
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Vladimir GardinBabchenko
Mariya Blyumental-TamarinaBabchikha
Tatyana GuretskayaKatya
Andrei AbrikosovPavel
Boris TeninVasya
Boris PoslavskySkvorzov- Mariya PototskayaEgo mat (as M. Pototskaya)
- Leonid AlekseevDirektor zavoda (as A. Alekseev)
- Nikolay KozlovskyLazarev
Vladimir SladkopevtsevMorgun
Yakov GudkinChutochkin
Nikolai MichurinMaster
Fedor SlavskiMaster
Pyotr AleynikovSlepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)
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