Counterplan (1932)

5.0/10 115 min Drama

Overview

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.

Cast

Vladimir Gardin

Babchenko

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Babchikha

Tatyana Guretskaya

Katya

Andrei Abrikosov

Pavel

Boris Tenin

Vasya

Boris Poslavsky

Skvorzov

Vladimir Sladkopevtsev

Morgun

Yakov Gudkin

Chutochkin

Nikolai Michurin

Master

Fedor Slavski

Master

Pyotr Aleynikov

Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)

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