How the Steel Was Tempered

This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.

• Mark DonskoyDirector
• Mark DonskoyScreenplay
• Lev ShvartsOriginal Music Composer

• Viktor Perest-PetrenkoPavel Korchagin
• Daniil SagalCast
• Irina FedotovaTonya
• Nikolai BubnovArtyom Korchagin
• Aleksandr KhvyliaCast
• Boris RungeCast
• Vladimir BalashovCast
• Władysław KrasnowieckiGerman Major
• Anton DunaiskyiTranslator
• Grigoriy AronovCast
• Nikolai VoloshinCast
• Dmytro KapkaCast