General Information

Original Title

Trinadtsat'

Author/Creator

Romm, Mikhail, director.

Language

Russian.

Published

Soviet Union : Mosfilm, 1936.

Physical Description

VHS (85 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

A unit of horse soldiers, an officer's wife, and a geologist struggle to stay alive in the desert after they are lost during a battle in this Russian drama. The abandoned band end up finding shelter in an empty fortress. Soon they are attacked by 200 enemies. Things look bleak for the survivors until the Russian cavalry rides in to save them. The rhythmic pattern, calculated with the mathematical precision, alternates attacks with pauses, thus never letting the viewer's attention go slack. The film was shot at the location where the last basmach bands had been cruched only 1933, so the bandits' leader became the prototype of the elusive Shirmatkhan. "Thirteen" was to become one of the first Sovier "Easterns", setting a model to emulate by a host of other adventure movies that followed in its wake.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

The Thirteen

Note

Duration: 01:25:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0997	Available	-	-