The Miners of Donetsk
About The Miners of Donetsk
A new coal harvester is tested at a leading Donbas mine and proves imperfect. Designer Trofymenko, played by Vladimir Druzhnikov, keeps working on the machine. Miner Stepan Nedolya, played by Boris Chirkov, young miner Vasya Orlov, and supervisor Gorovoy push newer methods of work. Some miners leave for technical institutes so they can come back as engineers. Leonid Lukov directed.
Cast & crew
More about The Miners of Donetsk
Boris Gorbatov wrote it and Tikhon Khrennikov composed the score. Wikidata dates the release May 16, 1951, and lists 108 minutes. The Wikimedia file is labeled 1950, and an alternate English title is Miners of the Don.
Themes
Background
The plot is built around a Donbas pit adopting a coal harvester and sending workers off to become engineers.
Music
Tikhon Khrennikov is the composer credited on Wikidata.
Notes
- Vasiliy Merkuryev plays Gorovoy and Andrei Petrov plays Vasya Orlov.
- Pyotr Aleynikov is in the cast. Mikheil Gelovani is billed without a role on the English cast list.
- Peter Rollberg's Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema (2008) is the bibliography item on the English page.
- Lidiya Smirnova plays Vera and Vitali Doronin plays Pavel Nedolya.
Scenes
- The new harvester fails its test, and Trofymenko stays on the machine to redesign it.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1950. Донецкие шахтеры.webm)
