''Friends'' (russian: Друзья, Druzya) is a 1938

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

biopic film directed by

Lev Arnshtam Lev Oskarovich Arnshtam (russian: Лео Оскарович Арншта́м; 15 January 1905 – 26 December 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1936 and 1967. Arnshtam was named People’s Artist ...

Plot

The film is based on the life of

Sergey Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov ( né Kostrikov; 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934) was a Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary whose assassination led to the first Great Purge. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and mem ...

. During the

Russian Civil War {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution and the aftermath of World War I , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left: {{flatlist, *Soldiers ...

, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union sends Aleksey to

Caucasus Mountains The Caucasus Mountains, : pronounced * hy, Կովկասյան լեռներ, : pronounced * az, Qafqaz dağları, pronounced * rus, Кавка́зские го́ры, Kavkázskiye góry, kɐfˈkasːkʲɪje ˈɡorɨ * tr, Kafkas Dağla ...

to help organize an armed uprising.

Cast

* Boris Babochkin - Aleksey * Irina Zarubina * Nikolai Cherkasov - Beta, an Ossetian * Stepan Kayukov * Kote Daushvili * Serafima Birman * Aleksandr Borisov * Ivan Nazarov

External links

* 1938 films Lenfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Lev Arnshtam Russian Civil War films Soviet biographical films Russian biographical films 1930s biographical films Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich Russian black-and-white films 1930s Russian-language films 1930s Soviet films {{bio-film-stub