Komsomolsk (film)

Komsomolsk or The Frozen North (also known a City of Youth) is a 1938 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Gerasimov. Made by Lenfilm, it is a propaganda work set against the backdrop of the construction of the new city of Komsomolsk. Although the film portrays this as the work of the Young Communist volunteers, it was in reality built largely by Gulag prisoners.[1]

"City of Youth" redirects here. For the British film, see The City of Youth.
Komsomolsk
Directed bySergei Gerasimov
Written bySergei Gerasimov
Zinoviya Markina
Mikhail Vitukhnovsky
CinematographyAleksandr Gintsburg
Aleksandr Zavyalov
Production
company
Lenfilm Studio
Release date
  • 1 May 1938 (1938-05-01)
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Cast
  • Pyotr Aleynikov as Pyotr
  • Sergei Gerasimov
  • Yevgeniya Golynchik as Cossack Woman
  • Bari Haydarov as Kilia
  • Leonid Kmit
  • Stepan Krylov as Subotin
  • Nikolay Kryuchkov as Andrei Sazanov
  • Viktor Kulakov as Chekanov
  • Ivan Kuznetsov as Butsenko
  • Tamara Makarova as Natasha Solovyeva
  • Aleksandra Matveeva as Klavka
  • Zula Nakhashkiyev as Kilia's Father
  • Ivan Novoseltsev as Vladimir Solovyev
  • A. Polibin as Organizer of Construction
  • G. Shenov as Mavrin
  • Valentina Telegina as Motya
  • Pavel Volkov as Stepan Nikitich
  • Georgi Zhzhyonov

References
  1. Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment p.471

Bibliography
  • Anna M. Cienciala, Wojciech Materski & N. S. Lebedeva. Katyn: A Crime Without Punishment. Yale University Press, 2008.


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