''Komsomolsk'' or ''The Frozen North'' (also known a City of Youth) is a 1938 Soviet

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directed by Sergei Gerasimov. Made by

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, it is a

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work set against the backdrop of the construction of the new city of Komsomolsk. Although the film portrays this as the work of the Young Communist volunteers, it was in reality built largely by

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prisoners.Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment p.471

Cast

* Pyotr Aleynikov as Pyotr * Sergei Gerasimov * Yevgeniya Golynchik as Cossack Woman * Bari Haydarov as Kilia *

Leonid Kmit Leonid Aleksandrovich Kmit (born Aleksei Aleksandrovich Kmita; russian: Алексей Александрович Кмита́; 9 March 1908 – 11 March 1982) was a Soviet and Russian actor. In 1931 he graduated from Saint Petersburg State Thea ...

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as Subotin *

Nikolay Kryuchkov Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (russian: Никола́й Афана́сьевич Крючко́в; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1932 and 1993. Selected fi ...

as Andrei Sazanov *

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as Chekanov * Ivan Kuznetsov as Butsenko *

Tamara Makarova Tamara Fyodorovna Makarova (russian: Тама́ра Фёдоровна Мака́рова; 13 August 1907 – 19 January 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film actress and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1950) and Hero of Socialist Labo ...

as Natasha Solovyeva *

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as Klavka *

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as Kilia's Father * Ivan Novoseltsev as Vladimir Solovyev * A. Polibin as Organizer of Construction * G. Shenov as Mavrin *

Valentina Telegina Valentina Petrovna Telegina (russian: Валенти́на Петро́вна Теле́гина; 1915 — 1979) was a Soviet and Russian actress. Biography Telegina was born on February 23, 1915, in Novocherkassk, capital of Don Cossacks (now the ...

as Motya *

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as Stepan Nikitich *

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References

Bibliography

* Anna M. Cienciala, Wojciech Materski & N. S. Lebedeva. ''Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment''. Yale University Press, 2008.

External links

* 1938 films Soviet drama films 1938 drama films 1930s Russian-language films Films directed by Sergei Gerasimov Soviet black-and-white films {{1930s-USSR-film-stub