They Were the First
6.2
1918. Anxious in Petrograd. Increasingly compressed around the revolutionary city of the enemy ring. Go to the front working shelves. The struggle against the enemies of Soviet power is not only on the outskirts of the city, but also in the rear. In this harsh and difficult time for the revolution by the will of the Bolshevik party on the outskirts of the workers created Komsomol organizations. The first to join the young Communist League, young workers — Stepan Barabash, Alexander Chizhik, Glasha, Kuzma. After some hesitation and deliberation, members of the Komsomol be a peasant boy, Theodore, who came from a remote village to work in Peter and the schoolboy Zhenya Gorovskoe. In the days of intense fighting young patriots together with the troops of the working guard sent to defend Petrograd
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Mikhail Kondratyev
V. I. Lenin
Also in
Hostile Whirlwinds
By Lenin's Scholarship
Georgiy Yumatov
Stepan Barabash
Known for
Officers
Ballad of a Soldier
Yuri Yegorov
Also in
The Young Guard
Yuzef Printsev
Mikhail Kondratev
V. I. Lenin
Jozef Prinzev
Liliya Aleshnikova
Glasha
Also in
Wake Mukhin Up!
Grown-Up Children
Mark Bernes
Rodionov
Also in
Two Soldiers
Case No. 306
Mikhail Ulyanov
Kolyvanov
Known for
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Aleksandr Tolstykh
Fyodor
Known for
Gas Station Queen
Viktor Terekhov
Kuzma
Also in
Ermak
Kingdom of Crooked...
Mikhail Derzhavin
Gorovskiy
Also in
Three Men in a Boat
My Seawoman
Yuri Yegorov Director · Yuzef Printsev Writer Mark Fradkin Composer
First release May 15, 1956 · Produced in Russia · Original title Они были первыми
Production
Gorky Film Studios
Production
Russia
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Original title
Они были первыми
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 15, 1956
Russia · May 15, 1956
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
May 16, 1957
Russia
November 4, 1956 · TV
XC
January 25, 1957 · Theatrical
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