Time, Forward! (1965)

Original title

Время, вперёд!

Directed by

Sofiya Milkina, Mikhail Schweitzer

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 38m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

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How it feels

In 1930s Soviet Union, construction workers at a steel plant learn rivals have set a record. They organize to increase their own output and beat that record. A journalist arrives to write about the project.

energeticdeterminedurgentcollectiveoptimisticintensepacedpurposeful

What happens

Time, Forward! (Russian: Время, вперёд!, Vremya, vperyod!) is a 1965 Soviet part industrial drama film directed by Sofiya Milkina and Mikhail Schweitzer based on the 1932 novel and a screenplay by Valentin Kataev. The film was produced by Mosfilm, a unit of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino). The famous musical score was composed by Georgy Sviridov. The title is derived from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bathhouse (Russian: Баня). The film is set in the 1930s, depicting one day of the construction work of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (or Magnitka). The characters are construction workers and Komsomol members who are eager to work. Learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they are mobilized in order to beat them. Everyone at the construction site has embraced socialist competition. They are ready to win at any cost to speed up construction and complete the work on time. A Moscow journalist comes to cover the scope of the great construction project, seeking a hero for his story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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