Counterplan (film)

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Counterplan
Directed bySergei Yutkevich
Fridrikh Ermler
Written byLev Arnshtam
Fridrikh Ermler

Sergei Yutkevich
StarringVladimir Gardin
CinematographyAleksandr Gintsburg

Vladimir Rapoport
Music byDmitri Shostakovich
Production
company
Release date
7 November 1932
Running time
118 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Counterplan (Russian: Встречный, romanized: Vstrechnyy) is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler. The film's title song, "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich with lyrics by the poet Boris Kornilov,[1][2] became world famous. Shostakovich's composition, with new lyrics by Jeanne Perret, would be used shortly after in the notable song of the French socialist movement, "Au-devant de la vie".[3] The same theme can be found before in Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Sergei Taneyev’s first symphony.

Shostakovich was to use the piece again in his (1947), another film entitled (1948) and his 1958 operetta . In 1942 the song was given English words by under the title "" and in this guise it was featured as the choral finale to MGM's patriotic war-time musical Thousands Cheer (1943). That same year, Leopold Stokowski made an orchestral arrangement of the song and this was given the title "".

This film could be considered 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
  • - Skvortsov
  • M. Pototskaya - Skvortsov's mother
  • Aleksei Alekseyev - Plant's director
  • Nikolai Kozlovsky - Lazarev
  • Vladimir Sladkopevtsev - Morgun
  • Yakov Gudkin - Chutochkin
  • - worker
  • - worker
  • Stepan Krylov - worker
  • Nikolai Cherkasov
  • Zoya Fyodorova

References[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Charles Rearick (1997). The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300064339.

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