''The Young Guard'' (russian: link=no, Молодая гвардия, translit. Molodaya Gvardiya) is a two-part 1948

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film directed by Sergei Gerasimov and based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Fadeyev. In 1949 a

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for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the group of leading actors. The film was also the highest grossing Soviet film of 1948, with approximately 48,600,000 tickets sold.

Synopsis

The film is set in July 1942 during

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. Part of the

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leaves the mining town

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. After that, the city gets occupied by the German troops. Enemy machines destroy their path and members of the

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group are forced to return home. In response to the atrocities of the invaders, the young Komsomol members, who are former students, create an underground

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Komsomol organization Young Guard. This organization leads a covert war against the occupation forces; young men spread antifascist leaflets, free a group of Red Army prisoners, burn the German stock exchange, thus saving their countrymen from being sent to work in Germany. On the day of the

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anniversary, the young guards hang red Soviet flags.

Cast

* Vladimir Ivanov as

Oleg Koshevoy Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy ( uk, Олег Васильoвич Кошoвий, translit. ''Oleh Vasyl'ovych Koshovyi''; russian: Олег Васильевич Кошевой) (June 8, 1926 – February 9, 1943) was a Soviet partisan and one of the ...

Inna Makarova Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cine ...

as Lyubov Shevtsova *

Nonna Mordyukova Noyabrina Viktorovna Mordyukova (Russian: Но́нна (Ноябри́на) Ви́кторовна Мордюко́ва; 25 November 1925 – 6 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian actress and People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was the star ...

as Uliana Gromova *

Sergei Gurzo Sergei Safonovich Gurzo (russian: Сергей Сафонович Гурзо; 1926–1974) was a Russian stage and film actor.Beumers p.75 He was married to the dancer and actress Irina Gubanova. Biography Sergei Gurzo born September 23, 1926 in ...

as Sergei Tyulenin *

Lyudmila Shagalova Lyudmila Alexandrovna Shagalova (russian: Людмила Александровна Шагалова; April 6, 1923 – March 13, 2012) was a Russian film supporting actress, active during the Soviet era. She was named a People's Artist of Russia ...

as Valeriya Borts *

Viktor Khokhryakov Viktor Ivanovich Khokhryakov (russian: Виктор Иванович Хохряков; 1913–1986) was a Soviet Russian film actor, theater actor and director. He played the composer Alexander Glazunov in the 1954 film ''Rimsky-Korsakov''.Mitche ...

as Commander Protzenko *

Viktor Avdyushko Viktor Antonovich Avdyushko (Russian: ''Виктор Антонович Авдюшко''; January 11, 1925 – November 19, 1975) was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Russian SFSR. Biography Early life Avdyushko was born to a father ...

as worker * Aleksandr Antonov as Ignat Fomin,

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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 (1978 ...

as Evgeny Stakhovich *

Sergey Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...

as Andrey Valko *

Muza Krepkogorskaya Musa Viktorovna Krepkogorskaya (russian: Муза Викторовна Крепкогорская; July 9, 1924, Moscow — June 26, 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989). Wife of act ...

as Lazarenko

References

External links

* 1948 films 1940s Russian-language films Gorky Film Studio films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Sergei Gerasimov Films based on Russian novels Soviet World War II films Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich Soviet war drama films 1940s war drama films 1948 drama films Films set in 1942 {{1940s-USSR-film-stub