The Young Guard (film)

The Young Guard
The Young Guard
	Film poster
Directed by	Sergei Gerasimov
Written by	Sergei Gerasimov; Alexander Fadeyev (novel)
Starring	Vladimir Ivanov; Inna Makarova; Nonna Mordyukova; Sergei Gurzo; Lyudmila Shagalova; Viktor Khokhryakov
Cinematography	Vladimir Rapoport
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Production; company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	11 November 1948;
Running time	170 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Young Guard (Russian: Молодая гвардия, translit. Molodaya Gvardiya) is a two-part 1948 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov and based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Fadeyev.^[1]^[2] In 1949 a Stalin Prize for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the group of leading actors.

The film was also the highest grossing Soviet film of 1948, with approximately 48,600,000 tickets sold.

Synopsis

The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic War. Part of the Red Army leaves the mining town Krasnodon. After that, the city gets occupied by the German troops. Enemy machines destroy their path and members of the Komsomol group are forced to return home. In response to the atrocities of the invaders, the young Komsomol members, who are former students, create an underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization Young Guard. This organization leads a covert war against the occupation forces; young men spread antifascist leaflets, free a group of Red Army prisoners, burn the German stock exchange, thus saving their countrymen from being sent to work in Germany. On the day of the Red October anniversary, the young guards hang red Soviet flags.

Cast

Vladimir Ivanov (actor) [ru] as Oleg Koshevoy
Inna Makarova as Lyubov Shevtsova
Nonna Mordyukova as Uliana Gromova
Sergei Gurzo as Sergei Tyulenin
Lyudmila Shagalova as Valeriya Borts
Viktor Khokhryakov as Commander Protzenko
Viktor Avdyushko as worker
Aleksandr Antonov as Ignat Fomin, Hilfspolizei
Yevgeny Morgunov as Evgeny Stakhovich
Sergey Bondarchuk as Andrey Valko
Muza Krepkogorskaya as Lazarenko

References

^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 747–748. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 394, 395.

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[1] Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 747–748. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.

[2] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 394, 395.

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