The First Echelon
1955 film
- Vsevolod Sanayev
- Nikolay Annenkov
- Oleg Yefremov
- Izolda Izvitskaya
- Sergey Urusevsky
- Yuri Ekelchik
Production
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Mosfilm
Release date
- 1955 (1955)
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The First Echelon (Russian: Первый эшелон, translit. Pervyy eshelon) is a 1955 Soviet war romance film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, for which Dimitri Shostakovich[1] wrote the music. A touching romance between the Secretary of the Komsomol organization Alexey Uzorov and tractor driver Anna Zalogina on the background of Virgin Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan.[2] Part of Shostakovich's score was used as the basis for the Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1. "Waltz II" from the suite was used in the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut.
Cast
- Vsevolod Sanayev as Alexey Yegorovich Dontsov, state farm director
- Nikolay Annenkov as Kashtanov, secretary of the RC
- Oleg Yefremov as Alexey Uzorov
- Izolda Izvitskaya as Anna Zalogina
- Nina Doroshina as Nelly Panina
- Vyacheslav Voronin as Troyan
- Khoren Abrahamyan as Varten Vartanyan
- Tatiana Doronina as Zoya
References
External links
- The First Echelon at IMDb
- Review by Karl J. Kipling
- The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich
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Films directed by Mikhail Kalatozov
- Their Empire (1928)
- The Blind Woman (1930)
- Salt for Svanetia (1930)
- Nail in the Boot (1931)
- Courage (1939)
- Valery Chkalov (1941)
- Invincible (1942)
- Conspiracy of the Doomed (1950)
- Hostile Whirlwinds (1953)
- True Friends (1954)
- The First Echelon (1955)
- The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
- Letter Never Sent (1959)
- I Am Cuba (1964)
- The Red Tent (1969)
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