Movie
1937
The Thirteen is a 1937 Soviet epic Ostern action adventure film directed by Mikhail Romm. Starring Ivan Novoseltsev and Yelena Kuzmina, it depicts a group of Red Army soldiers and civilians who fight to defend an essential desert well from a group of Basmachi bandits in Central Asia. The film was commissioned by Joseph Stalin as a Soviet adaptation of John Ford's film The Lost Patrol.
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Soviet cinema developed its very specific genre, later known to international critics as "Ostern" or "Red Western". In essence, these films were action-adventure stories set in remote or exotic areas of the Soviet Union during the Civil War that followed the October Revolution. Although the golden age for the genre began decades after the Second World War, the film that could be characterised as the first example wa…More
