''Steppe Dawns'' (russian: Степные зори, Stepnye zori) is a 1953 Soviet
drama film directed by
Lev Saakov
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based on the eponymous novel by
Boris Bedny.
The film received a permit dated March 25, 1953 for the all-Union hire except
Moscow,
Leningrad and the capitals of the
republics of the Soviet Union
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, but then the
Ministry of culture of the USSR imposed a complete ban on the production of the film "because of the extremely low ideological and artistic level." According to film critics Evgeny Margolit and Vyacheslav Shmyrov: "the film made by all the canons of the conflict-free theory and good fight with the best principle has lost all relevance in the new political environment".
Cast
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Iya Arepina as Varya
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Lev Frichinsky
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*Lev (given name)
*Lev (surname)
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* Lev, Azerbaijan, ...
as Styopa
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Nikolay Moskalenko
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Club career
He made his debut ...
as Alexey
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Yuriy Sarantsev as Pshenytsyn
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Georgi Gumilevsky Georgi may refer to:
* Georgi (given name)
* Georgi (surname)
See also
*Georgy (disambiguation)
*Georgii (disambiguation) Georgii may refer to:
;Given name
* Georgii Zantaraia (born 1987), Ukrainian judoka of Georgian origin
* Georgii Karpechenko ...
as Pavel
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Leonid Kmit
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Boris Runge
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*
Rimma Shorokhova
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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 ...
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Viktor Uralskiy
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* ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...
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Pavel Volkov
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References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 0046369
1953 films
1953 drama films
Soviet drama films
1950s Russian-language films
Films directed by Lev Saakov
Soviet black-and-white films