The Fortyfirst

Russia, the Civil War years… A Red Army unit is conducting a reconnaissance operation in the sands of Central Asia. The group of gruffy soldiers includes one woman, Maryutka. She is one of the unit’s best sharp-shooters, with forty killed enemy soldiers to her credit. In the course of the latest operation that Maryutka participated in, White officer Govorukha was taken prisoner. He is to become the forty first killed in her list, but so far they are stranded face to face in the expanses of sand, sky, sea and complex passions…

Awards: 10th Cannes IFF – Special Award “for original script, humanism and poetics”, 1957 / Edinburgh IFF – Honorary Diploma, 1956 All-Union Film Festival in Minsk – Critics’ Award, 1956

Special features: Interviews with director G.Chukhrai and actor O.Strixhenov / Photo album “In memory of G. Chukhrai” / Filmographies / Photo album
Title: THE FORTY FIRST
Collection: Director
Studio: Mosfilm
Year of release: 1956
Genre: drama
Director: Grigory Chukhrai
Script: Grigory Koltunov
Camera: Sergei Urusevsky
Music by: Nikolai Kriukov
Cast: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolai Kriuchkov, Nikolai Dupak, Georgy Shapovalov, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, L. Kovylin, Yu. Romanov, Daniil Netrebin, Asanbek Umuraliyev, Anatoly Kokorin, Muratbek Ryskulov, Vadim Zakharchenko, Alexander Grechany
Running time: 93

Color Format System Sound Subtitles Zone
Colored 4:3 NTSC PAL MONO: Russian
DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1:Russian, English(voiceover translation), French(voiceover translation)
Russian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, German