The Thirteen

The Thirteen
The Thirteen
Directed by	Mikhail Romm
Written by	Iosif Prut; Mikhail Romm
Starring	Ivan Novoseltsev ; Yelena Kuzmina
Cinematography	Boris Volchek
Edited by	Tatyana Likhachyova
Music by	Anatoli Aleksandrov
Release date	8 May 1937;
Running time	1h 30min
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Thirteen (Russian: Тринадцать, romanized: Trinadtsat) is a 1937 Soviet adventure film directed by Mikhail Romm.^[1]

Plot[]

Soviet Central Asia. Ten demobilized Red Army soldiers ride through the desert to the railroad. Three more people are with them: commander of the frontier Zhuravlev and his wife Maria Nikolaevna and an old geologist. In the desert, they find a well and hidden machine guns – this is the base of Basmach Shirmat Khan, whom the Red Army could not neutralize for a whole year. A single soldier is sent out for help while others remain to restrain the Basmachi.

In the well there is almost no water, but the Red Army carefully conceal it from the Basmachi who have approached. The bandits suffer from thirst, but attack violently in an attempt to reach the well. In an unequal battle, nearly all defenders of the well are killed, and the enemies are captured by the cavalry which has come to the rescue.

Cast[]

Ivan Novoseltsev - Squadron Commander Ivan Zhuravlyov
Yelena Kuzmina - Marya Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova
- Aleksandr Petrovich Postnikov, geologist
Andrei Fajt - Half Colonel Skuratov
Ivan Kuznetsov - Soldier Yusuf Akchurin
as Aleksey Timoshkin - Red Army soldier (as A. Dolinin)
as Petr Sviridenko - Red Army soldier (as P. Masokha)
Pavel Yudin as Petrov - Red Army soldier (as P. Yudin)
as Dimiriy Levkoyev - Red Army soldier (as D. Zolts)
as Nikolay Balandin - Red Army soldier (as V. Kulakov)

Influence[]

The 1943 American film Sahara, directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Humphrey Bogart, and its 1995 remake shared significant plot similarities. In fact, in the film's opening credits for screenplay and adaptation, the 1943 film credits the Soviet photoplay for inspiration.

References[]

^ "The Thirteen". IFFR. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

External links[]

The Thirteen at IMDb

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[1] "The Thirteen". IFFR. Retrieved 2020-01-25.

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