Soviet workers rebuild a factory while capitalism crumbles around them — propaganda or poetry?
Cinematography
Majestic smokestacks and ruins shot like religious icons.
Production
Authentic cement plant location, workers as extras.
Director
Aleksandr Blank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Fyodor Gladkov's 1925 novel, itself a foundational work of socialist realism that Stalin personally edited.
Filmed at the Podolsk cement plant, where temperatures on set reached 50°C; several crew members suffered heat exhaustion.
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