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The Forty-First

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1927·66 min·SU
Director: Yakov Protazanov
War

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.

A young woman sharpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan misses her forty-first victim, a handsome White lieutenant, and ends up escorting him, by boat, into captivity across the Aral Sea. A storm strands the two on an island.

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Cast

Ada Vojtsik

Ada Vojtsik

Maryutka Basova

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

Lieutenant Govorukha-Otrok

Ivan Shtraukh

Ivan Shtraukh

Commissar Arsentiy Yevsyukov

Crew

Boris Leonidov

writer

Pyotr Yermolov

cinematographer

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