The Thirteen (1937)
Note: this print runs 82 minutes against a recorded 90 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Fajt, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Stepan Krylov, Ivan Novoseltsev
Directed by Mikhail Romm
The Thirteen is a 1937 Soviet epic Ostern action adventure film directed by Mikhail Romm. Starring Ivan Novoseltsev and Yelena Kuzmina, it depicts a group of Red Army soldiers and civilians who fight to defend an essential desert well from a group of Basmachi bandits in Central Asia. The film was commissioned by Joseph Stalin as a Soviet adaptation of John Ford's film The Lost Patrol.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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