Drama Film: Forty-one

 

Forty-one, drama, dir. Grigory Chukhrai, (1956).

The film is based on the story of the same name by B. Lavrenev. On the white sands of Central Asia, pursued by the whites, dying of thirst, a detachment of Red Army soldiers is moving. The best shooter of the Maryutka detachment had forty killed White Guards on the combat account. In the last battle to capture the caravan, a white lieutenant-aristocrat Govoruha-Otrok was captured. He will be the forty-first... Director: Chukhrai Grigory Screenwriter: Grigory Koltunov Composer: Kryukov Nikolay Operator: Urusevsky Sergey Production Designers: Stepanov Konstantin, Kamsky Vladimir,