The Miners of Donetsk (1951)

Original title

Донецкие шахтеры

Directed by

Leonid Lukov

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Soviet film about miners in the Donbas region in the 1950s. It shows them working in the mines. They greet new technologies with excitement.

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What happens

The Miners of Donetsk or Miners of the Don (Russian: Донецкие шахтёры, romanized: Donetskie shakhtyory) is a 1951 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov. The film is about the life of miners in Donbas. New technologies are introduced which the miners embrace with enthusiasm. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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