''Outskirts'' (russian: Окра́ина, meaning "fringe" or "periphery"), also known in English as ''The Patriots'' or by the

transliterated Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or L ...

Russian title ''Okraina'', is a 1933

Soviet film The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow. M ...

directed by Boris Barnet.

Plot summary

In a small town in a remote part of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, factory workers struggle to organize against the owners. When

World war I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

comes, they unite as soldiers of the

Tsar Tsar ( or ), also spelled ''czar'', ''tzar'', or ''csar'', is a title used by East and South Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word ''caesar'', which was intended to mean "emperor" in the European medieval sense of the ter ...

on the Eastern Front. Local girl Anka forges a relationship with a German POW. The film criticises war profiteers and encourages workers to reach out to one another across national lines. In 1917, the Tsar is forced to abdicate following the February Revolution.

Cast

*Sergey Komarov — Alexander P. Greshin * Elena Kuzmina — Anka Greshina *Robert Erdmann — Robert Karlovich, tenant *Alexander Chistyakov — Pyotr Kadkin *

Nikolay Bogolyubov Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretic ...

— Nikolai Kadkin * Nikolai Kryuchkov — Senka Kadkin *

Mikhail Zharov Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Жа́ров; 27 October 1899 – 15 December 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour ...

— Kraevich *

Hans Klering Hans Klering (8 November 1906 – 30 October 1988) was a German actor, director, voice actor, graphic designer and author. He joined the Communist Party and went into exile in the Soviet Union in 1931, returning to Germany in 1945. In 1946, he beca ...

— Mueller, a German prisoner of war *Alexander Zhukov — policeman *Vladimir Ural — Cabby * Andrew Veit — a German prisoner *

Mikhail Yanshin Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (20 October 1902 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor. Biography Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kalug ...

— soldier

References

External links

* * 1933 films 1930s Russian-language films Films directed by Boris Barnet Soviet war drama films World War I films set on the Eastern Front Soviet black-and-white films 1930s war drama films 1933 drama films Russian Revolution films {{WWI-drama-film-stub