Counterplan (film)
| Counterplan | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sergei Yutkevich Fridrikh Ermler |
| Written by | Lev Arnshtam Fridrikh Ermler Leonid Lyubashevsky Sergei Yutkevich |
| Starring | Vladimir Gardin |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Gintsburg Iosif Martov Vladimir Rapoport |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
Production company | |
Release date | 7 November 1932 |
Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Counterplan (Russian: Встречный, romanized: Vstrechnyy) is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, with lyrics by the poet Boris Kornilov[1][2], became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s. The same theme can be found before in Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Sergei Taneyev’s first symphony.
This film could be considered as a Stalin propaganda film. The plot involves an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory.
Cast
- Vladimir Gardin - Babchenko
- Mariya Blyumental - Tamarina
- Tatyana Guretskaya - Katya
- Andrei Abrikosov - Pavel
- Boris Tenin - Vasya
- Boris Poslavsky - Skvortsov
- M. Pototskaya - Skvortsov's mother
- Aleksei Alekseyev - Plant's director
- Nikolai Kozlovsky - Lazarev
- Vladimir Sladkopevtsev - Morgun
- Yakov Gudkin - Chutochkin
- Nikolai Michurin - worker
- Pyotr Alejnikov - worker
- Stepan Krylov - worker
- Nikolai Cherkasov
- Zoya Fyodorova
References
- ^ Jacek Klinowski & Adam Garbicz (2012). Feature Cinema in the 20th Century: a Comprehensive Guide. Vol. One: 1913-1950. Planet RGB Limited. ISBN 978-1-624-07564-3.
- ^ Matthew Tobin Anderson (2015). Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. Candlewick Press. ISBN 978-0-763-68054-1.
External links
- Counterplan at IMDb
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