The First Echelon (, translit. Pervyy eshelon) is a 1955 Soviet war romance film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, for which Dmitri Shostakovich wrote the music. The film tells the story of the touching romance between Komsomol secretary Alexey Uzorov and tractor driver Anna Zalogina against the background of Virgin Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan.КиноПоиск. Все фильмы планеты Part of Shostakovich's score was used as the basis for the Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1. "Waltz II" from the suite was used in the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut.
Cast Vsevolod Sanayev as Alexey Yegorovich Dontsov, state farm director Nikolay Annenkov as Kashtanov, secretary of the RC Oleg Yefremov as Alexey Uzorov Izolda Izvitskaya as Anna Zalogina Nina Doroshina as Nelly Panina Vyacheslav Voronin as Troyan Khoren Abrahamyan as Varten Vartanyan Tatiana Doronina as Zoya
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Review by Karl J. Kipling The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich