Feature film
The Secret Brigade
Константин Заслонов
Aleksandr Faintsimmer · 1949
Synopsis
In the autumn of 1941, Konstantin Zaslonov, head of the Orsha railway depot, proposes forming a clandestine group and is ordered to return to the occupied city. He gets himself hired at the depot and pretends to serve the occupier. Under his leadership, the network mines and blows up locomotives, then paralyses the railway junction by freezing its water supply system.
Context
Belarusfilm produced this film based on real events, which Faintsimmer directs with Vladimir Korch-Sabline from a screenplay by Arkady Movzon; Alexander Ginzburg is behind the camera, Anatoly Bogatyrev writes the music, and Vladimir Druzhnikov plays the title role, alongside Yuri Toloubeyev. The film was released on 12 September 1949. The story draws on the real history of Konstantin Zaslonov, a railwayman from Orsha who later took command of the partisans of the region.
Who it is for
A black-and-white war film of a little under an hour and a half, in Russian and German.
Prizes and reception
Stalin Prize, third class, in 1950; the film was shown in France as early as 1950 and in the United States under an English title.
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