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 Play time: 87 min. Sound formats: Dolby Digital 5.1, Mono Format: DVD video PAL Format of the screen: Standart 4:3 (1,33:1) Subtitles: English, Russian, French, Spanish, German, Italian Language(s): English, Russian, French DVD region: 0 (All) Menu languages: English, Russian, French
Distribyutor: RUSCICO
Collection: Director
UdSSR
Mosfilm
The Forty-First (Sorok pervyy) (RUSCICO)Total in Box: 1 Release Date: 1956 EAN 4606777006922 SKU 204000013898 Visitors reviews Russia, the Civil War years… A Red Army unit is conducting a reconnaissance operation in the sands of Central Asia. The group of gruffy soldiers includes one woman, Maryutka. She is one of the unit’s best sharp-shooters, with forty killed enemy soldiers to her credit. In the course of the latest operation that Maryutka participated in, White officer Govorukha was taken prisoner. He is to become the forty first killed in her list, but so far they are stranded face to face in the expanses of sand, sky, sea and complex passions…
This dramatic love story captivated the Cannes Film Festival’s jury in 1957, which gave the film a special prize. Awards:
10th Cannes IFF – Special Award “for original script, humanism and poetics”, 1957
Edinburgh IFF – Honorary Diploma, 1956
All-Union Film Festival in Minsk – Critics’ Award, 1956
Special features:
INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTOR G. CHUKHRAI AND ACTOR O. STRIZHENOV;
PHOTO ALBUM “IN MEMORY OF G. CHUKHRAI”;
FILMOGRAPHIES;
PHOTO ALBUM;
COMING SOON ON DVD
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