The Honor of Comrade
About The Honor of Comrade
Major Bokhanov arrives as a new instructor at a Suvorov military school and is given the case of senior cadet Gennady Pashkov. Pashkov mocks the other cadets' friendships and is ready to betray them. Bokhanov works on him. By graduation the cadets expect Pashkov to make a commander.
Cast & crew
More about The Honor of Comrade
Nikolay Lebedev directed. Boris Izyumsky and Leonid Zhezhelenko wrote it from Izyumsky's novella Red Epaulets (Alye pogony). Veniamin Levitin photographed it. Vladimir Maklakov wrote the music. Lenfilm released this color picture on December 30, 1953. English Wikipedia gives 84 minutes. A Russian listing gives 77. The Russian title is Chest tovarishcha. Vladimir Druzhnikov plays Bokhanov. Konstantin Skorobogatov plays the school commandant, General Poluektov. Yuriy Tolubeev plays General Pashkov.
Themes
Making
Lebedev shot it in color at Lenfilm from Izyumsky's cadet novella.
Look
Veniamin Levitin photographed the color scenes in the Suvorov school.
Music
Vladimir Maklakov wrote the score.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The English Wikipedia title is A Comrade's Honour.
- Boris Kokovkin plays Colonel Zorin. Gennadiy Michurin plays Lieutenant Colonel Rusanov.
- The school is a Suvorov school, for boys training as officers.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Bokhanov is handed the Pashkov case on arrival.
- The cadets judge Pashkov again at graduation.
Influenced by
- Boris Izyumsky's novella Red Epaulets
