The Forty-First (1956 film)

The Forty-First
Directed byGrigori Chukhrai
Screenplay byGrigori Koltunov
Based onThe Forty-First
by Boris Lavrenyov
Produced byG. Lukin
StarringIzolda Izvitskaya
Oleg Strizhenov
Nikolai Kryuchkov
CinematographySergey Urusevsky
Edited byLidia Lysenkova
Music byNikolai Kryukov
Production
company
Release date
  • 15 October 1956 (1956-10-15) (USSR)
Running time
88 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Forty-First (Russian: Сорок первый, romanizedSorok pervyy) is a 1956 Soviet war romance film based on the eponymous novel by Boris Lavrenyov. It was directed by Grigori Chukhrai, who also wrote the screenplay, and starred Izolda Izvitskaya and Oleg Strizhenov. The film, a remake of the 1927 movie with the same name, is set during the Russian Civil War and tells the story of a tragic romance between a female sniper of the Red Army and an officer of the White Army.