The Forty First

The Forty First (1957)

Genres - Drama, Romance, War  |   Sub-Genres - War Drama  |   Release Date - Jun 14, 1957 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 88 min.  |   Countries - Russia  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

Sorok Pervy was a typically patriotic Soviet entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. The story focuses in on Isolda Izvitskaya, cast as a courageous Revolution-era female sharpshooter. While escorting a male White Russian prisoner back to her own lines, Isolda and her captive are marooned on a desert island. Predictably, a romance blossoms between the two former enemies. Unpredictably, Isolda is forced to make a daunting sacrifice to rescue her lover from punishment at the hands of the Czarists. The film is based on a novel by Boris Lavrenyov, previously filmed in 1928 by Yakov Protazanov..

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captive, Czar, escort, island-deserted, sacrifice, sharpshooter