On the Red Front

On the Red Front
Directed by	Lev Kuleshov
Written by	Lev Kuleshov
Cinematography	Pyotr Yermolov
Production company	VGIK
Release date	1920 (1920)
Country	Russia
Languages	Silent Russian intertitles

On the Red Front (Russian: На красном фронте, romanized: Na krasnom fronte) is a 1920 Soviet silent war drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov.

Plot

Still from the film

During the Russian Civil War, the commander of a Red Army unit entrusts a courier with a secret report to deliver to headquarters. Along the way, a Polish spy ambushes the courier, steals the confidential document, and attempts to escape.

Undeterred, the Red Army soldier pursues the spy, with the help of a passing vehicle that allows him to catch up to a train where the spy has taken refuge. The two engage in a dramatic fight atop the roof of a railway carriage. After a fierce struggle, the Red Army courier defeats his opponent and successfully delivers the critical dispatch to headquarters.

Cast

• Aleksandra Khokhlova as Polish peasant
• Lev Kuleshov as Polish Peasant
• Leonid Obolensky as Red Army soldier
• A. Reikh as Polish spy

Bibliography

• Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links

• On the Red Front at IMDb