The Nail in the Boot
1931•53m•6.6•Released
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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.
Director
Mikhail Kalatozov
Writer
Leonid Perelman
Languages
Georgian, Russian
Studio
JSC "Sakhkinmretsvi"
Cast
Aleqsandre Jaliashvili
Worker
Siko Palavandishvili
Red army soldier
Akaki Khorava
Chief of the train
Arkadi Khintibidze
Prosecutor
Kirile Macharadze
Chairman of the court (uncredited)
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