The District Secretary

The District Secretary
Marina Ladynina in the movie
Russian: Секретарь райкома
Directed byIvan Pyryev
Written byIosif Prut
Starring
CinematographyValentin Pavlov
Edited byAnna Kulganek
Music byBoris Volsky
Production
company
Release date
  • 1942 (1942)
Running time
91 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The District Secretary, (Russian: Секретарь райкома) is a 1942 Soviet World War II film directed by Ivan Pyryev.[1][2][3][4][5]

Plot

The film takes place in the first year of the Great Patriotic War. The plot is based on the fight between the commander of the partisan detachment and the Secretary of the District Committee of Kochet with Colonel Makenau.[6]

Starring

  • Vasili Vanin as District Secretary Stepan Gavrilovich Kochet
  • Marina Ladynina as Natasha
  • Viktor Kulakov as Lt. Herman Albrecht, alias Lt. Orlov
  • Mikhail Astangov as Nazi Col. Makenau
  • Boris Poslavsky as Semyen Abramovich Rotman
  • Mikhail Kuznetsov as Sasha Rusov
  • Mikhail Zharov as Gavril Fedorovich Rusov
  • Tatyana Govorkova as The Hostess (uncredited)
  • Yevgeni Grigorev as Vasiliy Glushchenko (uncredited)
  • Leonid Kulakov as German (uncredited)
  • Sofya Levitina as Lady at the identity parade (uncredited)[7]

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