A Fortress in the Mountains (1953)

Original title

Застава в горах

Directed by

Konstantin Yudin

Genre

adventure film, spy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Soviet border guards in Central Asia uncover a spy plot during the early Cold War. They work to defend their mountain outpost against foreign agents and saboteurs.

action-packedtensepatrioticsuspensefuldatedstraightforwardfast-pacedearnest

What happens

A Fortress in the Mountains (Russian: Застава в горах, romanized: Zastava v gorakh) is a 1953 Soviet adventure film directed by Vladimir Gerasimov and Konstantin Yudin and starring Vladlen Davydov, Marina Kuznetsova and Yelena Shatrova. It was made by Mosfilm using the Sovcolor process. It was the third most successful Soviet film at the box office that year, with attendance figures of 44.8 million. The film is an early Cold War action thriller, set in Central Asia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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