The North Star (1943)
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- Passed
- 1h 48min
- Drama, Romance
- 04 Mar 1944 (Mexico)
- Movie
- Nominated for 6 Oscars.
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Cast verified as complete
Anne Baxter | ... |
Marina Pavlov
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Dana Andrews | ... |
Kolya Simonov
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Walter Huston | ... |
Dr. Kurin
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Walter Brennan | ... |
Karp
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Ann Harding | ... |
Sophia Pavlov
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Jane Withers | ... |
Clavdia Kurin
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Farley Granger | ... |
Damian Simonov
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Erich von Stroheim | ... |
Dr. von Harden
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Dean Jagger | ... |
Rodion Pavlov
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Eric Roberts | ... |
Grisha Kurin
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Carl Benton Reid | ... |
Boris Simonov
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Ann Carter | ... |
Olga Pavlov
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Esther Dale | ... |
Anna Kurin
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Ruth Nelson | ... |
Nadya Simonov
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Paul Guilfoyle | ... |
Iakin
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Martin Kosleck | ... |
Dr. Richter
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Tonio Selwart | ... |
German Captain
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Peter Pohlenz | ... |
German Lieutenant
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Gene O'Donnell | ... |
Russian Gunner
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Robert Lowery | ... |
Russian Pilot
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Frank Wilcox | ... |
Cmdr. Petrov
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Loudie Claar | ... |
Woman on Hospital Cot
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Lynn Winthrop | ... |
Guerrilla Girl
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Charles Bates | ... |
Patya
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Florence Auer | ... |
Woman Farmer (uncredited)
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John Bagni | ... |
Guard at Desk (uncredited)
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Art Baker | ... |
Radio Voice (uncredited) (voice)
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John Beverly | ... |
Orderly (uncredited)
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Bill Borzage | ... |
Accordion Player in Wagon (uncredited)
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Eric Braunsteiner | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Ruth Brennan | ... |
Young Girl (uncredited)
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Frederic Brunn | ... |
German Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
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Edward Burns | ... |
Guerrilla (uncredited)
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Lane Chandler | ... |
Guerrilla (uncredited)
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Edmund Cobb | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Grace Cunard | ... |
Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
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Sonia Darrin | ... |
Dancing Peasant (uncredited)
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Emma Dunn | ... |
Peasant Woman (uncredited)
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Carol Easton | ... |
Girl (uncredited)
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Martin Faust | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Al Ferguson | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Constant Franke | ... |
Boris' Aide (uncredited)
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Clair Freeman | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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John George | ... |
Villager (uncredited)
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Inna Gest | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Henry Hall | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Tommy Hall | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Teddy Infuhr | ... |
Bald Schoolboy (uncredited)
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John Judd | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Ilia Khmara | ... |
First Accordion Player (uncredited)
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George Kole | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Anne Kunde | ... |
Villager (uncredited)
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Tamara Laub | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Grace Lenard | ... |
Woman on Bridge (uncredited)
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George Lynn | ... |
German Pilot (uncredited)
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Ronn Marvin | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Jerry Mickelsen | ... |
Farmer's Son (uncredited)
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Ralph Montgomery | ... |
Villager (uncredited)
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Bill Nestell | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Georgie Nokes | ... |
Boy (uncredited)
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Sarah Padden | ... |
Old Lady (uncredited)
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Patricia Parks | ... |
Sonya (uncredited)
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Jack Perrin | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Minna Phillips | ... |
Old Lady in Wagon (uncredited)
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Francis Pierlot | ... |
Wounded Townsman (uncredited)
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Serge Protzenko | ... |
Accordion Player (uncredited)
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Tommy Rall | ... |
Dancing Peasant (uncredited)
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William Sabbot | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Ferdinand Schumann-Heink | ... |
Doctor's Assistant (uncredited)
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Carl Sepulveda | ... |
Farmer (uncredited)
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Clarence Straight | ... |
Young Man in Wagon (uncredited)
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Harry Strang | ... |
Guerilla (uncredited)
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Ray Teal | ... |
German Soldier with Binoculars and Grenade (uncredited)
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Joyce Tucker | ... |
Little Girl in Hospital (uncredited)
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Dorothy Vernon | ... |
Villager (uncredited)
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Jack Vlaskin | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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Marie Vlaskin | ... |
Specialty Dancer (uncredited)
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William Walker | ... |
Young Man in Wagon (uncredited)
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Crane Whitley | ... |
German Soldier (uncredited)
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Directed by
Lewis Milestone |
Written by
Lillian Hellman | ... | (original story) |
Lillian Hellman | ... | (screen play) |
Burt Beck | ... | () (uncredited) |
Produced by
Samuel Goldwyn | ... | producer |
William Cameron Menzies | ... | associate producer |
Music by
Aaron Copland |
Cinematography by
James Wong Howe | ... | (photography) |
Editing by
Daniel Mandell |
Editorial Department
Anthony Ciccolini | ... | additional editor |
Art Direction by
Perry Ferguson |
Set Decoration by
Howard Bristol |
Makeup Department
Robert Stephanoff | ... | makeup artist |
Production Management
Walter Mayo | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sam Nelson | ... | assistant director |
Art Department
McClure Capps | ... | associate art director |
Sound Department
Fred Lau | ... | sound recorder |
Thomas T. Moulton | ... | sound effects (uncredited) |
Special Effects by
Ray Binger | ... | special photographic effects |
Clarence Slifer | ... | special photographic effects |
Stunts
Buster Wiles | ... | stunts (uncredited) |
Music Department
Ira Gershwin | ... | lyricist |
Gil Grau | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Jerome Moross | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Arthur Morton | ... | orchestrator (uncredited) |
Heinz Roemheld | ... | conductor (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Samuel Goldwyn | ... | presenter |
David Lichine | ... | choreographer |
Zina Voynow | ... | technical advisor: Russian |
Curt Furberg | ... | voice over (uncredited) |
William Cameron Menzies | ... | director of retakes (uncredited) |
Peter Pohlenz | ... | technical advisor (uncredited) |
Benno Schneider | ... | dialogue director (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- RKO Radio Pictures (1943) (United States) (theatrical) (as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.) (released through)
- RKO Distributing Corporation of Canada (1943) (Canada) (theatrical) (as RKO Distributing Corporation of Canada, Ltd.)
- RKO Radio Pictures (1943) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (as RKO Radio Pictures, Ltd.)
- RKO Pictures (Australasia) (1943) (Australia) (theatrical)
- RKO Radio Pictures Argentina (1944) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- RKO Radio Films (1945) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Film Classics (1947) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Les Films Corona (1947) (France) (theatrical)
- National Telefilm Associates (NTA) (1957) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release) (re-titled) (re-edited)
- NTA Home Entertainment (1984) (United States) (VHS)
- CBS/Fox Home Video (1985) (Australia) (video) (as 'Armored Attack')
- Republic Pictures Home Video (1986) (United States) (VHS)
- Reel Media International (2004) (World-wide) (video)
- Reel Media International (2007) (World-wide)
- Olive Films (2014) (Canada) (DVD) (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Olive Films (2014) (United States) (DVD) (DVD and Blu-ray)
- Topanga Canyon Films (2018) (Spain)
- Penteo Films S.L. (2019) (World-wide) (restored)
- New Star (2020) (Greece) (theatrical) (re-release)
Special Effects
Other Companies
Storyline
Plot Summary |
It's June, 1941 in a farming cooperative in the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine. Although the citizens of the cooperative hear about the atrocities of the war on their radios, they are on the most part not yet directly affected by it. It's the end of the school year, and some of the older youth are excited about their futures. Beyond that, a small group of those youth are looking most forward to their imminent vacation to Kiev, where they are planning to hike for the four or five days it takes to get there above their planned three days in the city itself. They include: Damian Terasa Simonov, who finished top of his class including getting a scholarship to study at the State University of Kiev in the fall; his girlfriend, Marina Pavlov, the two who will be separated for the year as she finishes her schooling and who plan eventually to reunite in Kiev not only for Marina to go to university as well but for the two to get married; Kolya Simonov, Damian's older, more worldly brother who is a junior officer in the Soviet air corps; Clavdia Kurin, an old fashioned type of girl on who Kolya is sweet; and Grisha Kurin, Clavdia's younger brother. Things change when the Germans invade the Soviet Union - including the village of the cooperative - first with air strikes then ground troops. While some of the villagers form a guerrilla army hidden in the woods, they led by Kolya and Damian's father, Boris Stepanich Simonov, Kolya, Damian, Marina, Clavdia, Grisha, and fellow villager, the elderly Karp, are caught between Kiev and the village, all trying to make their way back to the village, except Kolya who must join his regiment at the airfield. Their journey becomes more important to the war effort upon their encounter with someone else on the road. Back in the village, the people who may end up being the most conflicted are: Marina's mother, Sophia Pavlov, who will probably be the primary target of the Germans as the de facto head of the cooperative, with Marina's father, Rodion Pavlov, having joined the ranks of the guerrillas; and Clavdia and Grisha's grandfather, Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin, who as a doctor has vowed to save lives, and who may be asked to save the lives of wounded German soldiers, all the while while the Germans in similar circumstances have bled the children of villages to their deaths all in the name of providing blood plasma to the wounded soldiers. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | A ROLLING WALL OF HELL THAT COULDN'T BE STOPPED... A HANDFUL OF MEN WHO HAD TO STOP IT! (rerelease title card all-caps0 See more » |
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Trivia | This is one of the films deemed subversive" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in October 1947, at the height of the "Red Scare" era typified by the tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The committee decided that, even though Russia was an ally of the US against Nazi Germany in World War II--when this film was made--the movie's sympathetic portrayal of Russian peasants and guerrillas who were fighting off Nazi forces was an endorsement of Communism. See more » |
Goofs | In the opening moments of the film, Damian slides out from under a tractor that has rubber tires. Moments later the tractor is shown as having only steel wheels and no rubber tires. See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Masters of Menace (1995). See more » |
Soundtracks | Song of the Fatherland See more » |
Quotes |
Dr. von Harden:
[while Dr. Kurin is holding a gun on Richter and von Harden]
I do not like much of what I've done for the past nine years. Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [after von Harden has given a blood transfusion from a Russian child to a German soldier] You do not like bleeding children? Dr. von Harden: Did the boy die? Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [Contemtuously] You knew he would die! Dr. von Harden: They took too much blood. I'm sorry for that. Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: Yes, I nelieve you when you say you are sorry. Dr. von Harden: I'm sorry for many things, Dr. Kurin. Most of all that this is not the world we used to know. Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: I've heard about you... civilized men who are sorry. This... [Contemptuously gesturing toward Richter] Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: This kind is nothing! They will go when their bosses go, but men like you who have contempt for men like him! To me you are the real filth... men who do the work of Facists while they pretend to themselves that they are better than the beasts for whom they work... men who do murder while they laugh at them who order them to do it. It is men like you who have sold their people to men like him. [He points to Richter and shoots him at point blank range] Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: You see, Dr. von Harden, you were wrong about many things. I AM a man who kills! [He shoots von Harden at point blank range too] See more » |