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The First Echelon is a 1955 Soviet film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, for which Dimitri Shostakovich wrote the music. A touching romance between the Secretary of the Komsomol organization Alexey Uzorov and tractor driver Anna Zalogina on the background of Virgin Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan.
Original Release
11/24/1955
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Vsevolod Sanaev | Aleksey Yegorovich Dontsov - sovkhoz director |
| Sergei Romodanov | Taras Grigoryevich Shugaylo - brigade foreman |
| Oleg Efremov | Aleksey Stepanovich Uzorov |
| Izolda Izvitskaya | Anna Zalogina |
| Eduard Bredun | Genka Monetkin |
| Aleksey Kozhevnikov | Valya Solntsev |
| Nina Doroshina | Nelli Panina |
| Elza Lezhdey | Tamara |
| Anatoliy Kirillov | Petya from ZIS |
| Valentina Kuznetsova | Katya |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Vsevolod Sanaev | Aleksey Yegorovich Dontsov - sovkhoz director |
| Sergei Romodanov | Taras Grigoryevich Shugaylo - brigade foreman |
| Oleg Efremov | Aleksey Stepanovich Uzorov |
| Izolda Izvitskaya | Anna Zalogina |
| Eduard Bredun | Genka Monetkin |
| Aleksey Kozhevnikov | Valya Solntsev |
| Nina Doroshina | Nelli Panina |
| Elza Lezhdey | Tamara |
| Anatoliy Kirillov | Petya from ZIS |
| Valentina Kuznetsova | Katya |
| Vyacheslav Voronin | Troyan |
| Khoren Abrahamyan | Vartan Vartanyan - Rostovite |
| Boris Belyakov | Rostovite |
| Viktor Novoselsky | Rostovite |
| Valentin Pechnikov | Rostovite hairdresser |
| Tatyana Doronina | Zoya |
| Nurmukhan Zhanturin | Kurbanov |
| Viktoriya Chaeva | Virgin soil worker |
| Pyotr Kiryutkin | Sovkhoz worker |
| Aleksandr Lyalin | Appearing |
