The Young Guard (film)

The Young Guard

Film poster
Directed by Sergei Gerasimov
Written by Sergei Gerasimov
Alexander Fadeyev (novel)
Starring Vladimir Ivanov
Inna Makarova
Nonna Mordyukova
Sergei Gurzo
Lyudmila Shagalova
Viktor Khokhryakov
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich
Cinematography Vladimir Rapoport
Production
company
Release dates
11 November 1948
Running time
170 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

The Young Guard (Russian: Молодая гвардия, translit. Molodaya Gvardiya) is a two-part 1948 Soviet film directed by Sergei Gerasimov and based on the novel of the same title by Alexander Fadeyev. In 1949 a Stalin Prize for this film was awarded to Gerasimov, cinematographer Vladimir Rapoport, and the group of leading actors.

The film was also the highest grossing Soviet film of 1948, with approximately 48,600,000 tickets sold.

Synopsis

The film is set in July 1942 during The Great Patriotic War. Part of the Red Army leaves the mining town Krasnodon. After that, the city gets occupied by the German troops. Enemy machines destroy their path and members of the Komsomol group are forced to return home. In response to the atrocities of the invaders, the young Komsomol members, who are former students, create an underground anti-fascist Komsomol organization Young Guard. This organization leads a covert war against the occupation forces; young men spread antifascist leaflets, free a group of Red Army prisoners, burn the German stock exchange, thus saving their countrymen from being sent to work in Germany. On the day of the Red October anniversary, the young guards hang red Soviet flags.

Cast

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