The Nail in the Boot

Dec 31, 1931

0h 53m

★ 6.6

Overview

Banned in the Soviet Union for its "negative" content and never released, Kalatozov was forced to retreat from filmmaking for seven years because of this film. The film sets out to illustrate the old adage, "For want of a nail, the battle was lost," showing how the inferior quality of something so trivial as a nail in a soldier's boot leads inexorably to the capture of an armored train. Kalatozov had intended to demonstrate the crucial and universal importance of efficiency in Soviet industry, but the government decided that his fable gave a negative impression of the Red Army's capabilities.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

JSC "Sakhkinmretsvi"

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Cast

Worker

Aleqsandre Jaliashvili

Red army soldier

Siko Palavandishvili

Chief of the train

Akaki Khorava

Prosecutor

Arkadi Khintibidze

Chairman of the court (uncredited)

Kirile Macharadze

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