
How the Steel Was Tempered
This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
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Nikolai Ostrovsky
Novel

Mark Donskoy
Director

Mark Donskoy
Screenplay

Bentsion Monastyrsky
Director of Photography

Rafail Perelstein
Assistant Director

Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
Mikhail Solokha
Production Design
Oleksandr Babiy
Sound Director
Evgeniy Zilbershtein
First Assistant Director
Vladimir Yakovlev
Makeup & Hair
Mikhail Levin
Producer
Mykhailo Chorny
Assistant Camera