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How the Steel Was Tempered

19421.8 / 1092 min

Drama, War, History

Overview

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.

Cast

Viktor Perest-Petrenko

Pavel Korchagin

Daniil Sagal

Irina Fedotova

Tonya

Nikolai Bubnov

Artyom Korchagin

Aleksandr Khvylya

Boris Runge

Vladimir Balashov

Władysław Krasnowiecki

German Major

Anton Dunaysky

Translator

Grigoriy Aronov

Nikolai Voloshin

Dmitriy Kapka

Boris Andreyev

Boris Runge

Seryozhka Bruzzhak

Crew

Nikolai Ostrovsky

Novel

Mark Donskoy

Screenplay

Mark Donskoy

Director

Bentsion Monastyrsky

Director of Photography

Rafail Perelstein

Assistant Director

Lev Shvarts

Original Music Composer

Mikhail Solokha

Production Design

Oleksandr Babiy

Sound Director

Evgeniy Zilbershtein

First Assistant Director

Vladimir Yakovlev

Makeup & Hair

Mikhail Levin

Producer

Mykhailo Chorny

Assistant Camera

N. Gorbenko

Editor

Leonid Man

Second Assistant Director

A. Shamuradova

Second Assistant Director