Train of Mercy is a Soviet black and white film staged at the Lenfilm film studio in 1964 by director Iskander Hamraev . The first film adaptation of the story of Vera Panova "Sputniks".
| Train of mercy | |
|---|---|
 Valentin Zubkov in the feature film Train of Mercy | |
| Genre | military melodrama |
| Producer | Iskander Hamraev |
| Author script | Vera Panova |
| In the main cast | Valentin Zubkov Mikhail Ekaterin Emma Popova Zhanna Prokhorenko Evgeny Lebedev |
| Operator | Konstantin Ryzhov |
| Composer | Marat Kamilov |
| Film company | Lenfilm studio" |
| Duration | 87 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1964 |
| IMDb | ID 0232428 |
The film premiered in the USSR on February 22, 1965 .
Content
Story
The film tells about the fighting everyday life of the ambulance train . “Life-saving trains” were the name given to medical trains during the years of World War II . In one of these trains for the first time, people of different character, age and habits met. For four years, the train of mercy runs along the roads of the war, evacuating the wounded from the front. Bombs, blood, death, short minutes of rest bring people together who save other people's lives. They all become one big family ...
Cast
- Valentin Zubkov - Danilov
- Mikhail Catherine - Belov
- Emma Popova - Julia Dmitrievna
- Zhanna Prokhorenko - Lena Ogorodnikova
- Evgeny Lebedev - Spouses
- Galina Dashevskaya - Faina
- Elena Koroleva - Vaska Burenko
- Vladimir Receptor - Nizvetsky
In the episodes
- Anatoly Abramov - wounded from Penza
- Igor Bogolyubov - episode
- E. Gioev - episode
- Lilia Gurova - Leah Smirnova, nurse
- Lyudmila Egorova - Klava Mukhina
- Pavel Kashlakov - episode
- Lev Lemke - Quartermaster of the ambulance train
- Pavel Luspekaev - Lutokhin
- Lyubov Malinovskaya - hairdresser
- Maria Mamkina - Sonechka, Belova's wife
- Alexander Movchan - Dania Ogorodnikov
- Nikolay Muravyov - a soldier wounded in the leg
- Sergey Plotnikov - Protasov, wagon master
- Valentina Pugacheva - mother of the wounded
- George Satini - member of the train crew
- Sergey Zubkov (as Seryozha Subbotin ) - Vanyusha, son of Danilov
- Stanislav Sokolov - wounded with a guitar
- Alexander Susnin - wounded
- Lyubov Tishchenko - barmaid Fima
- Arkady Trusov - Sukhoyedov
- Claudia Khabarova - Dusya, Danilov’s wife
- Victor Chekmarev - Kravtsov
- Alexey Smirnov - Senior Lieutenant (uncredited)
Film crew
- Script writer - Vera Panova
- Director - Iskander Hamraev
- The main operator - Konstantin Ryzhov
- Artist - Mikhail Ivanov
- Composer - Marat Kamilov
- Sound Engineer - Semyon Shumyacher
- Directors - V. Stepanov, Grigory Tsorin
- Operator - Semyon Ivanov
- Combined Shooting:
- Artist - I. Denisov
- Operator - Nikolai Pokoptsev
- Assistants:
- Director - M. Gilbo, M. Dakiev, L. Krivitskaya
- operator - V. Kapustin
- Makeup - E. Boreyko
- Costumes - E. Yakovleva
- Scenery - Valery Yurkevich
- Editor - E. Shkultina
- Editor - Haley Elken
- Consultants - V. Virolainen, A. Spiridonov, A. Shirokanov
- The text reads - Nina Nikitina
- Director of the picture - O. Gavlovskaya
Facts
- In December 1944, on the instructions of the newspaper’s editorial staff, Vera Panova completed four flights in 2 months in the “exemplary” military sanitary train No. 312 to the battlefields for the wounded, after which she published the story “Sputniks” (1946; Stalin Prize , 1947), which brought the writer wide readership recognition.
- The film "Train of Mercy" was the first film adaptation of the story of Vera Panova . In 1975, director Pyotr Fomenko directed the four-part feature film " For the Rest of His Life " based on this story.
- Under the pseudonym Seryozha Subbotin, in fact, Seryozha Zubkov, the son of Valentin Zubkov , appeared in the role of the son of Danilov).
Links
- "Train of Mercy" . State Register of Films . Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Date of treatment February 17, 2013. Archived February 26, 2013.
- "Train of Mercy" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"
- "Train of Mercy" . Television and feature films . Channel "Culture". Date of treatment February 17, 2013. Archived February 26, 2013.
- Train of Mercy on the Internet Movie Database
- Cinema-Theater.ru
- People.ru