The Miners
About The Miners
Semyon Primak is sent by the regional committee into a small Donbas town and clashes at once with Chub, the mine chief, who, in a permanent rush, plays into the hands of Trotskyists and bandits working in the pit. With backing from the new secretary, the shock worker Matvey Bobylev tries a new way of cutting coal. Against the group that wants the method buried, it spreads among the Donbas miners.
Cast & crew
More about The Miners
Sergei Yutkevich directed Aleksei Kapler's script at Lenfilm. It opened on 23 August 1937. Zhozef Martov photographed it. Boris Goltz wrote the music. The catalog cast includes Boris Poslavsky, Yuriy Tolubeev, Vladimir Lukin, Nina Rusinova, Zoya Fyodorova, and Aleksei Matov.
Themes
Background
The story is a 1930s Donbas mine, with the film naming Trotskyists among the people working against the new coal method.
Look
Zhozef Martov was the cinematographer.
Music
Boris Goltz wrote the score.
Notes
- The Russian title is Shakhtyory.
- English Wikipedia classes it as an adventure drama.
- The fight in the plot is inside one Donbas mine, between Primak, the chief Chub, and the shock worker Bobylev.
Scenes
- Primak arrives and goes straight into a fight with mine chief Chub.
- Bobylev's new cutting method spreads through the Donbas pits despite the group trying to stop it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1937. Шахтеры.webm)
