The Forty-First

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Introduced by Ludmila Gromova and Vitaly Yerenkov In association with Kino Kino! Language: In Russian with English subtitles USSR | 1956 | 88 min | colour | director Grigory Chukhrai, with Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak One of the first major films of the post-Stalinist thaw and a 1957 Cannes award-winner, The Forty-First's remarkable power stems largely from the stunning camerawork of Sergei Urusevsky (The Cranes Are Flying, I Am Cuba), who creates a timeless landscape of sand, water, and sky for an unexpected love story between a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.