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''School of Courage'' () is a 1954
Soviet
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
war/adventure film directed by
Vladimir Basov
Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (28 July 192317 September 1987) was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983.
Biography
Vladimir Basov was born in the Urazovo village, Voronezh Governor ...
and
Mstislav Korchagin. It is based on the 1929 novel ''School'' by
Arkady Gaidar
Arkady Petrovich Gaidar (, born Golikov, ; – 26 October 1941) was a Russian literature, Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.Arkady Gaidar. Biography. Timeline. Works by Arkady ...
.
3rd Edition (1970-1979)
[Marina Surganova. ]
95 year ago actor/director Vladimir Basov was born
' article from Rewizor.ru, 28 July 2018 (in Russian) Meant for juvenile audience, it became a 1954 Soviet box office leaders (10th place with 27.2 million viewers). The movie was a directorial debut for Vladimir Basov and Mstislav Korchagin (who died in a plane crash right after the end of shooting) and an acting debut for
Rolan Bykov
Rolan Antonovich Bykov (October 12, 1929October 6, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
Early life
Rolan Bykov was born to Anton Mikhailovich Bykov and Ol ...
and
Leonid Kharitonov.
Plot
The film tells about a Russian high school student, Boris Golikov, during the
First World War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
. He has been influenced by the official Czarist patriotism of the period, and is consequently horrified when he learns that his father has deserted from the front. But the arrest and execution of his father, and then the influence of his father's comrade, who has joined the Bolshevik force, leads him to join the
Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...
on the Don front. He enters the detachment of the former teacher Semion Galka. With the detachment, he goes through the rear lines of the White forces to join up with the main Red Army.
Cast
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Leonid Kharitonov as Boris
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Mark Bernes
Mark Naumovich Bernes () (born Menakhem-Man Neukh-Shmuylov Neyman, ; ,This date: – is a mistake found in the ''Great Soviet Encyclopaedia''. True date: – was engraved on the Bernes's gravestone at Novodevichy Cemetery (Moscow), and also ...
as Afansii Chubuk
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Vladimir Yemelyanov
Vladimir Nikolayevich Yemelyanov (; 20 June 1911 – 2 July 1975) was a Soviet actor and producer who appeared in 42 films between 1953 and 1975. He is most known for '' Road to Life'' (1955), '' The Immortal Garrison'' (1956) and '' Plane ...
as Guerilla Leader
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Nikolai Garin as Colonel Zhikharev
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Georgi Gumilevsky as Akim Ryabukha
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Vadim Zakharchenko
Vadim Viktorovich Zakharchenko (; 19 February 1929 — 2 January 2007) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 2002. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation
Merited Artist of the Russian Feder ...
as Syrtsov
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Mikhail Pugovkin
Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (; 13 July 1923 — 25 July 2008) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.
He studied in the Moscow Art Theatre school under Ivan Moskvin, took part in World War II and, follow ...
as Shmakov
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Nikolay Grabbe as Jan, aka Ivan, guerilla
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Vladimir Gorelov as Gypsy
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Roza Makagonova
Roza Ivanovna Makagonova (, 28 October 1927 – 18 April 1995) was a Soviet actress. Makagonova was awarded as a Meritorious Artist in 1976.
Biography
Makagonova was born in 1927 in Samara. In 1951, she finished the Gerasimov Institute of Cinem ...
as Verka, peasant girl
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Evgeniya Melnikova as Mother Gorikova
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Pyotr Chernov as Father Gorikov
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Grigory Mikhaylov as Verka's Father
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Rolan Bykov
Rolan Antonovich Bykov (October 12, 1929October 6, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director, screenwriter and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
Early life
Rolan Bykov was born to Anton Mikhailovich Bykov and Ol ...
as student of a real school
Awards
* 1954 — Best educational film at the 8th
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Eur ...
[Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary, main editor ]Sergei Yutkevich
Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich (, 28 December 1904 – 23 April 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1962) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).
Life and career
He began work as a teen do ...
, p. 38. — Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1987
References
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