''Counterplan'' (russian: Встречный, Vstrechnyy) is a 1932

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directed by

Sergei Yutkevich Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (russian: Серге́й Ио́сифович Ютке́вич, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of ...

and

Fridrikh Ermler Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (russian: Эрмлер, Фридрих Маркович; born Vladimir Markovich Breslav; 13 May 1898 in Rēzekne – 12 July 1967 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-tim ...

. The film's title song, "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

with lyrics by the poet

Boris Kornilov Boris Petrovich Kornilov (''russian: Бори́с Петро́вич Корни́лов'') (29 July 1907, in Semyonov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Pokrovskoye, Semyonovsky Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate – 20 February 1938) was a Soviet Unio ...

, became world famous. Shostakovich's composition, with new lyrics by Jeanne Perret, would be used shortly after in the notable song of the French socialist movement, "Au-devant de la vie". The same theme can be found before in

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’s ''

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'' and

Sergei Taneyev Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев, ; – ) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. Life Taneyev was born in Vladimir, Vladimir Governorate, Russia ...

’s first symphony. Shostakovich was to use the piece again in his ''

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'' (1947), another film entitled '' Mitchurin'' (1948) and his 1958 operetta '' Moscow, Cheremushki!''. In 1942 the song was given English words by Harold J. Rome under the title " United Nations on the March" and in this guise it was featured as the choral finale to MGM's patriotic war-time musical ''

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'' (1943). That same year,

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made an orchestral arrangement of the song and this was given the title "

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". This film could be considered a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch " wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory.

Cast

Vladimir Gardin Vladimir Rostislavovich Gardin (russian: Влади́мир Ростисла́вович Га́рдин) (born Vladimir Rostislavovich Blagonravov (Благонра́вов); – 28 May 1965) was a pioneering Russian film director and actor who ...

- Babchenko * Mariya Blyumental - Tamarina * Tatyana Guretskaya - Katya *

Andrei Abrikosov Andrei Lvovich Abrikosov (russian: Андрей Львович Абрикосов; 14 November 1906 – 21 October 1973) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1968). Biography He was born in Simferopol to ...

- Pavel *

Boris Tenin Boris Mikhailovich Tenin (; 23 March 1905, Kuznetsk – 8 September 1990, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Biography Boris Tenin was born in Kuznetsk in a family of a rai ...

- Vasya *

Boris Poslavsky Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

- Skvortsov * M. Pototskaya - Skvortsov's mother * Aleksei Alekseyev - Plant's director * Nikolai Kozlovsky - Lazarev * Vladimir Sladkopevtsev - Morgun * Yakov Gudkin - Chutochkin *

Nikolai Michurin Nikolai or Nikolay is an East Slavic variant of the masculine name Nicholas. It may refer to: People Royalty * Nicholas I of Russia (1796–1855), or Nikolay I, Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855 * Nicholas II of Russia (1868–1918), or Nik ...

- worker * Pyotr Alejnikov - worker * Stepan Krylov - worker * Nikolai Cherkasov *

Zoya Fyodorova Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (russian: Зоя Алексеевна Федорова; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. ...

References

External links

* 1932 films Lenfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Sergei Yutkevich Films directed by Fridrikh Ermler Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich Soviet drama films 1932 drama films 1930s Russian-language films {{1930s-USSR-film-stub