''The Sailors of Kronstadt'' (russian: Мы из Кронштадта) is a 1936 Soviet drama war film directed by
Efim Dzigan Yefim Lvovich Dzigan (russian: Ефим Львович Дзиган; 14 December 1898 – 31 December 1981) was a Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Filmography Director
* '' First Cornet Streshnev'' ...
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Plot
The film tells about the confrontation of the sailors of the Baltic Fleet and the Yudenich formations, which besiege Petrograd.
Cast
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Vasiliy Zaychikov as Commissar Vasili Martinov (as Vasili Zajchikov)
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Georgi Bushuyev as Artyom Balashov
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Nikolay Ivakin as A Red Army Soldier
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Oleg Zhakov
Oleg Petrovich Zhakov (russian: Олег Петрович Жаков; 1 April 1905 in Sarapul, Vyatka Governorate – 4 May 1988 in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He performed in more than sixty films between ...
as Regiment Commander Draudin
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Raisa Yesipova as Mademoiselle
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Pyotr Kirillov as Seaman Valentin Bezprozvanny
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E. Gunn as Seaman Anton Karabash
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Mikhail Gurinenko as Misha, the cabin boy (as Misha Gurinenko)
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Fyodor Seleznyov as A White Army Soldier (as F. Seleznyov)
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Pyotr Sobolevsky
Pyotr Stanislavovich Sobolevsky (russian: Пётр Станиславович Соболевский; 22 May 1904 – 26 June 1977) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1926 and 1973.
Biography
Sobolevsky was born on 22 ...
as A Lieutenant
Reception
Writing for ''
The Spectator
''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world.
It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'' in 1937,
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...
gave the film a good review, characterizing it as being "in the tradition of boys' stories, full of last charges and fights to the death, heroic sacrifices and narrow escapes, all superbly directed", and summarizing it as an "unusual mixture of poetry and heroics". Identifying moments of humour and pathos, Greene claimed that a
Fordian poetic sense (i.e. not melodic arrangement, but moral composition) had thoroughly "impregnated" the film "from the first shot to the last", and that the writing resonated with
Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...
's definition of the novelist's purpose, "life as it is: life as it ought to be". Greene would return several months later to re-review the film for ''
Night and Day'' where he again claimed that it was "the best film to be seen in London". Describing the film as somewhat propagandistic, Greene noted that "what makes the film immeasurably superior to its rivals is the strain of adult poetry, the sense of human beings longing for peace".
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References
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1936 films
1930s Russian-language films
Soviet black-and-white films
Soviet war drama films
1930s war drama films
1936 drama films
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