The Unforgettable Year 1919

The Unforgettable Year 1919 (1951)

Незабываемый 1919 год

A dramatization of the 1919 defense of Petrograd, focusing on Bolshevik leadership and the defeat of White Army forces during the Russian Civil War.

Date of release
1951-06-06
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Mikheil Chiaureli

Casting

Interesting facts

The Unforgettable Year 1919 is a 1951 Soviet historical drama film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli.

Production

The script was adapted from a play by the same name, that was composed by Vsevolod Vishnevsky for Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949 and won the Stalin Prize. Ronald Hingley wrote that Vishnevsky's play "magnified Stalin's Russian Civil War record beyond all recognition". Chiaureli's work was one of the only nine Soviet pictures produced during 1951.

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