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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Aleksandr Chistyakov | ... | Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin | |
| Sergey Komarov | ... | Alexander Petrovich Greshin | |
| Yelena Kuzmina | ... | Marika Greshina | |
| Nikolay Bogolyubov | ... | Nikolai Kadkin | |
| Nikolay Kryuchkov | ... | Senka Kadkin | |
| Hans Klering | ... | Mueller, German POW (as Gans Klering) | |
| Mikhail Zharov | ... | Krayevitch, a student | |
| Vladimir Uralskiy | ... | (as V. Uralsky) | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Robert Erdman | ... | Robert Karl, German boarder (as R. Yerdman) | |
| Andrey Fayt | |||
| Daniil Vvedenskiy | ... | (as D. Vvedenskiy) | |
| Mikhail Yanshin | |||
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A. Yermakov | ||
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Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism. Written by Anonymous
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Country:
Soviet UnionRelease Date:
24 September 1933 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Patriots See more »Filming Locations:
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"The Outskirts (Okraina)" follows several stories as villagers in a far-distant Russian town are faced with war, a strike, a prisoner-of-war camp, and the effects and aftershocks these all bring. The town the film begins in is struggling with the shocks and effects of war, and the film follows those effects in multiple story lines. The ways that the war is used vary, from a factory strike brought on by the harshness of the times, to a young woman and her budding relationship with a German prisoner of war, to the shoe factory strike, to the soldiers at the front lines. As with many other Soviet films, there are many semi-leading and leading characters, and these film is constantly shifting between groups of characters and stories we are following. There are also tertiary characters being effected by the war as well.
The transition from the more comedic parts to the horrors of war are quick, and often very abrupt. The clumsiness of the story comes from the odd pacing, with too-long bouts of time spent in the various places where the film takes place, making it difficult to transition back to the other story lines easily. The film is clearly struggling to fit the appropriate criteria laid forth by the Soviet Union, to tell the right story with the appropriate characters and the right messages. The stories we follow are compelling in and of themselves but the choppy pacing and the lack of technical finesse detract from the overall quality of this complex, multi-layered war film.