Zakhar AGRANENKO
Захар АГРАНЕНКО
Zakhar AGRANENKO
Eduard TISSE
Эдуард ТИССЭ
Edouard TISSE
USSR, 1956, 98mn 
Colour, fiction
Besmertnyy garnison
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Бессмертный гарнизон

 

 The Immortal Garrison

 La Garnison immortelle

 
Directed by : Zakhar AGRANENKO (Захар АГРАНЕНКО), Eduard TISSE (Эдуард ТИССЭ)
Writing credits : Konstantin SIMONOV (Константин СИМОНОВ)
 
Cast
Antonina BOGDANOVA (Антонина БОГДАНОВА)
Anatoli CHEMODUROV (Анатолий ЧЕМОДУРОВ)
Vladimir EMELIANOV (Владимир ЕМЕЛЬЯНОВ)
Nadya FANDIKOVA (Надя ФАНДИКОВА)
Aleksandra KHOKHLOVA (Александра ХОХЛОВА)
Nikolay KRIUCHKOV (Николай КРЮЧКОВ)
Vasili MAKAROV (Василий МАКАРОВ)
Vladimir MONAKHOV (Владимир МОНАХОВ)
L. NARYSHKINA (Л. НАРЫШКИНА)
Gennadi SAIFULIN (Геннадий САЙФУЛИН)
Valentina SEROVA (Валентина СЕРОВА) ...Maria Nikolaevna
Lidia SUKHAREVSKAIA (Лидия СУХАРЕВСКАЯ)
Felix YAVORSKY (Феликс ЯВОРСКИЙ)
 
Cinematography : Eduard TISSE (Эдуард ТИССЭ)
Production design : Abram FREYDIN (Абрам ФРЕЙДИН)
Music : Veniamin BASNER (Вениамин БАСНЕР)
Sound : Veniamin KIRSHENBAUM (Вениамин КИРШЕНБАУМ)
Companies : Mosfilm
Spectators : 30 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Special mention Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1956
10ème place pour la vente des billets en 1956 : Trente millions de spectateurs
Diplôme d'honneur au Festival de Venise, 1956

Plot synopsis
About heroic defense of the Brest fortress in the period of June 22 to July 20, 1941. The defenders ran out of food, water and ammunition. During a whole month fascists tried to persuade the heroes to surrender, but the soldiers-patriots at their lives' cost preferred fidelity to the oath to disgrace of betrayal.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

commentaries
La guerre dans le cinéma soviétique, Éric AUNOBLE, ehne.fr, 2021
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1956

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