The Forty First Sorok Pervy

Buy This Item The Forty First Sorok Pervy by Ruscico  Available from Amazon  $17.99  on 11-15-2008     SOUNDTRACK (LANGUAGE(S): RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH / SUBTITLES: RUSSIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN. Russia, the Civil War years A Red Army unit is conducting a reconnaissance operation in the sands of Central Asia. The group of gruffy soldiers includes one woman, Maryutka. She is one of the units best sharp-shooters, with forty killed enemy soldiers to her credit. In the course of the latest operation that Maryutka participated in, White officer Govorukha was taken prisoner. He is to become the forty first killed in her list, but so far they are stranded face to face in the expanses of sand, sky, sea and complex passions This dramatic love story captivated the Cannes Film Festivals jury in 1957, which gave the film a special prize. Awards: 10th Cannes IFF Special Award for original script, humanism and poetics, 1957 Edinburgh IFF Honorary Diploma, 1956 All-Union Film Festival in Minsk Critics Award, 1956 Special features: INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTOR G. CHUKHRAI AND ACTOR O. STRIZHENOV; PHOTO ALBUM IN MEMORY OF G. CHUKHRAI; FILMOGRAPHIES; PHOTO ALBUM; COMING SOON ON DVD Reader Reviews I just got this DVD from RussianDVD.com. The release has been held up for two years for some production problems, but the wait was worth it. This DVD is just gorgeous. I first saw the film in the 60s, and if memory does not fail me, the color was never this lush and wonderful. This film, I believe, is Chukhraj's second best; the very best one, hands down, is "The Ballad of a Soldier". The same cinematographer was responsible for the remarkable cinematography (color in FF and B/W in BoaS) of both films. Both films share something in common: a very simple (but not simplistic) plot and a poetic treatment, which are also the main characteristics of Boris Lavrenev's original novella, which "The Forty First" is based on. The ending is a sad one, so you may want to watch it when you're in the right mindset. By the way, in the book the heroine is described as having green-yellowish, cat-like eyes, an image that has stuck in my mind since I read an English translation of it long time ago.

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