Counterplan (1932)

5.0/10 115 min Drama

Overview

The story of an effort to catch "wreckers" at work in a Soviet factory. The film’s title-song called "The Song of the Counterplan", composed by Dmitri Shostakovich, became world famous and was adapted into "Au-devant de la vie", a notable song of the French socialist movement of the 1930s.

Cast

Vladimir Gardin

Babchenko

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Babchikha

Tatyana Guretskaya

Katya

Andrei Abrikosov

Pavel

Boris Tenin

Vasya

Boris Poslavsky

Skvorzov

Vladimir Sladkopevtsev

Morgun

Yakov Gudkin

Chutochkin

Nikolai Michurin

Master

Pyotr Aleynikov

Slepnitsyn, young worker (uncredited)

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