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DecentGoodWatch scoreSummary
In one of the steppe regions of Kazakhstan arrives on Komsomol youth squad. Severe frosts, spring mud flows, exhausting work than their specialty - the development of virgin land does not come easy.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want dark or edgy material
Where to watch
Not streaming in any country yet.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 61GoodWatch 57
IMDb6.1
Running time
1 h 54 min
A typical length for war movies
typical 118114Half of all war movies run 103–135 min.
Released
1955
December 31, 1955
71 years ago
Genres
WarDramaRomanceLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
and 17 more24 people
- Vsevolod SanayevAleksey Yegorovich Dontsov
- Sergei RomodanovTaras Grigorievich Shugailo
- Nikolai AnnenkovKashtanov
- Oleg EfremovAleksey Uzorov
- Izolda IzvitskayaAnna Zalogina
- Eduard BredunGenka Monetkin
- Aleksey KozhevnikovSolntsev
- Nina DoroshinaNelly Panina
Elza LezhdeyTamara
Anatoliy KirillovPetya- VKValentina KuznetsovaKatya
Vyacheslav VoroninTroyan
Khoren Abramyanrostovchanin
Boris Belyakovrostovchanin
Viktor Novoselskyrostovchanin
Valentin Pechnikovrostovchanin- SSSergey Shvardygulovrostovchanin
- KSKonstantin StarostinChernov
Yevgenia Vekhovskaya(uncredited)
Valentina Vladimirova(uncredited)- VDVioletta Dolskaya(uncredited)
Anatoliy Dudorov(uncredited)
Evgeniy Zinovyev(uncredited)
Bruno Lyaush(uncredited)
Directing · 6
- Mikhail Kalatozov Director
- Anatoliy Dudorov Assistant Director
- Yevgeni Tashkov Assistant Director
- Nikolay Dostal Second Unit Director
- N. Yudkin Assistant Director
- G. Balandina Assistant Director
Writing · 3
- Nikolay Pogodin Writer
- Sergey Vasilyev Lyricist
- Grigoriy Mariamov Script Editor
Production · 1
- Yakov Antselovich Executive Producer
Camera · 4
- Sergei Urusevsky Director of Photography
- Yuri Yekelchik Director of Photography
- Yu. Trankvillitskiy Assistant Camera
- B. Nagorniy Assistant Camera
Editing · 1
- Zoya Veryovkina Editor
Sound · 3
- Dmitri Shostakovich Original Music Composer
- Arnold Roytman Conductor
- Valeri Popov Sound Recordist
Art · 2
- Gennady Myasnikov Production Design
- Mikhail Bogdanov Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Valentin Perelyotov Costume Design
- M. Maslova Key Makeup Artist
Visual Effects · 3
- Igor Felitsyn Visual Effects Camera
- Nikolay Zvonaryov Visual Effects Designer
- Aleksandr Renkov Visual Effects Camera
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