''Pavel Korchagin'' (russian: Павел Корчагин) is a 1956

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 ...

drama film directed by Aleksandr Alov and

Vladimir Naumov Vladimir Naumovich Naumov (russian: Влади́мир Нау́мович Нау́мов; 6 December 1927 – 29 November 2021) was a Russian film director and writer. Naumov was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1983. He was a schoolmate o ...

, based on the novel ''

How the Steel Was Tempered ''How the Steel Was Tempered'' (russian: Как закалялась сталь, ''Kak zakalyalas' stal) or ''The Making of a Hero'', is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is ...

''.

Plot

The film tells about the Red Army soldier Pavel Korchagin and his comrades fighting for a just cause.Josephine Woll, The Cranes are Flying
I.B.Tauris, 2003, , 14 p.

Cast

Vasily Lanovoy Vasily Semyonovich Lanovoy (russian: Василий Семёнович Лановой; (16 January 1934 – 28 January 2021) was a Soviet and Ukrainian Russian actor who worked in the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow. He was also known as the Preside ...

as Pavel Korchagin * Tamara Stradina as Tonya Tumanova * Elza Lezhdey as Rita Ustynovich * Vladimir Marenkov as Ivan Zharky * Pavel Usovnichenko as Zhukhrai * Dmitri Milyutenko as Tokarev * Aleksandr Lebedev as Nikolai Okunev * Lev Perfilov as Franz Klavichek * Viktor Stepanov as Vikhrasty * Lidiya Piktorskaya as Korchagin's mother *

Konstantin Stepankov Kostiantyn Petrovich Stepankov ( uk, Костянтин Петрович Степанков, by name of Kostiantyn Petrovich Voloshchuk; 3 June 1928 – 22 July 2004) was a Ukrainian soviet actor. He appeared in more than fifty films betwee ...

as Akim * Ada Rogovtseva as Christina *

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 moonshiner *

Nikolai Grinko Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko ( uk, Микола Григорович Гринько; russian: Никола́й Григо́рьевич Гринько́; 22 May 1920, Kherson – 10 April 1989, Kyiv was a Soviet ...

as station chekist *

Yevgeny Morgunov Yevgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov (russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Моргуно́в; April 27, 1927 – June 25, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, Merited Artist of Russian SFSR (197 ...

as thief (uncredited)

References

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* {{IMDb title, id=0050826 1956 drama films 1956 films Films based on Russian novels Films directed by Aleksandr Alov Films directed by Vladimir Naumov Nikolai Ostrovsky Russian Civil War films 1950s Russian-language films 1950s war drama films Soviet war drama films