How the Steel Was Tempered
About How the Steel Was Tempered
Mark Donskoy's film follows Pavel Korchagin, the young revolutionary of Nikolai Ostrovsky's novel, through the Civil War. Viktor Perest-Petrenko plays Pavel. Irina Fedotova plays Tonya, and Daniil Sagal plays the sailor Fyodor Zhukhrai. Journalist Pyotr Vail wrote that, unlike the novel and later versions, this picture centers on the German occupation of Ukraine in 1918.
Cast & crew
More about How the Steel Was Tempered
Donskoy wrote the script as well as directing. The English Wikipedia lists 76 minutes; the Russian Wikipedia lists 92.
Themes
Background
Ostrovsky's novel was filmed in 1942, when new Soviet features were mostly about the war then being fought. This one stays with the Civil War.
Reviews
Pyotr Vail argued that the film's subject, unlike the book, is the 1918 German occupation of Ukraine.
Look
Bentsion Monastyrsky was the cinematographer.
Music
Lev Shvarts wrote the score.
Notes
- The U.S. release title was Heroes Are Made, dated March 10, 1944.
- Sweden released it on March 13, 1944, as Ukraina i lågor.
- Nikolai Bubnov plays Artem Korchagin. Aleksandr Khvylya plays Dolinnik. Boris Runge plays Seryozhka.
- Bentsion Monastyrsky photographed it. Lev Shvarts wrote the music.
Influenced by
- Nikolai Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered
