Malakhov kurgan (1944)

Directors:

Iosif Kheifits
Aleksandr Zarkhi

Writers:

Iosif Kheifits (writer)
Boris Voytekhov (novel)

Release Date:

22 June 1945 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot Keywords:

Sebastopol | Enemy | Ship | Fight | WWII

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Nikolai Kryuchkov	...	Cmdr. Boris Likhachev
Boris Andreyev	...	Maj. Zhukovsky
Akaki Khorava	...	Vice-Admiral
Mariya Pastukhova	...	Maria Perventseva
Nikolai Dorokhin	...	Sgt. Sizov
Fyodor Ishchenko	...	Sailor
Nikolai Gorlov	...	Sailor
Yevgeni Perov	...	Sailor
Igor Tkachuk	...	Sailor
Zura Lejava	...	Sailor (as Zurab Lezhava)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Aleksandr Smiranin	...	Narrator (voice)

Also Known As:

Малахов курган (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Malakhovis korgani (Soviet Union: Georgian title)
The Last Hill (USA)

Runtime:

Soviet Union:90 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Georgian | Russian

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Tbilisi, Georgia

Company:

Tbilisis Kinostudia

Trivia:

This nearly all-Russian war film, about the defense of the Russian navy port of Sevastopol during WW2, had to be shot at the Georgian Film Studio in Tblisi, to which the Leningrad directing team of Iosif Kheifits and 'Aleksandr Zarkhy', along with their Russian cast and crew, had been evacuated. (Leningrad had been surrounded and nearly wiped out by the Germans.) The language of the script was Russian, spoken by a nearly all-Russian cast (with the exception of Zura Lejava, so it seems quite reasonable to consider this a Russian rather than a Georgian film.