''Virgin Soil Upturned'' (russian: Поднятая целина, Podnyataya tselina) is a 1939 Soviet drama film directed by Yuli Raizman.

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In January 1930, the farm Gremyachy Log arrives collectivization former sailor,

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, a former worker of the Leningrad plant, Semyon Davydov. In the farm he meets and gets acquainted with Makar Nagulnov, the head of the local party cell, and the chairman of village council, Andrei Razmyotnov. The members of party convened a meeting of Gremyachins activists and the poor. The present farmers registered in the collective farm and recorded those who should be

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. The prosperous farmers did not aspire to the collective farm. At the end of February, an entry into the collective farm stopped, an enemy force acted in the farm. Dissatisfied secretly gathered to discuss how to discourage collectivization.

Cast

* Gavriil Belov as Ostrovnov *

Sergei Blinnikov Sergei Blinnikov (russian: Серге́й Капито́нович Бли́нников) was a Soviet actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1963),

as Bannik * Mikhail Bolduman as Nagulnov * Boris Dobronravov as Davydov * Vladimir Dorofeyev as grandfather Shchukar * as PolovtsevПоднятая целина (1940) Full Cast & Crew
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Yelena Maksimova Yelena Aleksandrovna Maksimova ( rus, Еле́на Алекса́ндровна Макси́мова; November 23, 1905 – September 23, 1986) was a Soviet film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1958). Selected filmography * Women of Ry ...

as Malanya Atamanchukova

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Сценарий «Поднятой целины»
1939 films 1930s Russian-language films Soviet drama films 1939 drama films Mosfilm films Films set in the Soviet Union Soviet black-and-white films Films based on Russian novels Films scored by Georgy Sviridov {{1930s-USSR-film-stub

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