В тылу врага
About В тылу врага
A group of Soviet scouts goes into the enemy rear and reaches a farm the White Finns have left. Nikolai Kryuchkov leads the cast. The English title is In the Rear of the Enemy.
Cast & crew
More about В тылу врага
Yevgeni Shneider directed. Rudolf Bershadsky wrote it. Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed it. David Blok wrote the music. Soyuzdetfilm released it on July 14, 1941. It runs 59 minutes. The Russian title is В тылу врага.
Themes
Background
The Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 was still the reference for a 'White Finn' enemy in a film finished by July 1941. The picture opened while a new war was already underway.
Making
Shneider made the scout story at Soyuzdetfilm in the first summer of the war, with the Finnish front as the ground the patrol crosses.
Look
Aleksandr Shelenkov photographed the scouts' move onto the abandoned farm.
Music
David Blok composed the score.
Notes
- The enemy in the Wikipedia summary is the White Finns, and the objective is a farm they have abandoned.
- Kryuchkov is the billed lead.
- Soyuzdetfilm, the children's and youth studio, produced this war picture.
- The release date, July 14, 1941, is three weeks after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
- Blok is the composer and Shelenkov the cameraman.
Scenes
- The scouts enter the rear and reach the farm the Finns have left.
