The First Echelon

The First Echelon (Russian: Первый эшелон, translit. Pervyy eshelon) is a 1955 Soviet film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, for which Dimitri Shostakovich^[1] 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.^[2]

The First Echelon
Directed by	Mikhail Kalatozov
Written by	Nikolai Pogodin
Starring	Vsevolod Sanayev Nikolay Annenkov Oleg Yefremov Izolda Izvitskaya
Cinematography	Sergey Urusevsky Yuri Ekelchik
Edited by	Zoya Verevkina
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1955
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Cast

• Vsevolod Sanayev as Alexey Yegorovich Dontsov, state farm director
• Nikolay Annenkov as Kashtanov, secretary of the RC
• Oleg Yefremov as Alexey Uzorov
• Izolda Izvitskaya as Anna Zalogina
• Nina Doroshina as Nelly Panina
• Vyacheslav Voronin as Troyan
• Khoren Abrahamyan as Varten Vartanyan
• Tatiana Doronina as Zoya

References

1. Rollberg, Peter (20 July 2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman / Littlefield. ISBN 9781442268425. Retrieved 10 February 2017 – via Google Books.
2. КиноПоиск. Все фильмы планеты

External links

• The First Echelon at IMDb
• Review by Karl J. Kipling
• The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich