Sergey GERASIMOV
Сергей ГЕРАСИМОВ
Sergueï GUERASSIMOV
USSR, 1944, 83mn 
Black and white, fiction
The Mainland
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Большая земля

 

 La Grande Terre

 Bolshaya zemlya

 
Directed by : Sergey GERASIMOV (Сергей ГЕРАСИМОВ)
 
Cast
Tamara MAKAROVA (Тамара МАКАРОВА) ...Anna Sviridova
 
Production : Mosfilm
Restauration : 1974
 

Plot synopsis
An epic of the wartime. August 1941. Residents of a small town in the Urals see their husbands and sons off to the front. Women take their husbands’ and sons’ place at the plants and factories showing extraordinary leaders' capabilities and will. The refugees arrive in the town together with an evacuated factory. Anne, the main character of the film, takes a woman with children to her house and all the rest follow her example.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru