Steppe Dawns

Steppe Dawns (Степные зори) is a 1953 Soviet drama film directed by Lev Saakov based on the eponymous novel by Boris Bedny.

The film received a permit dated March 25, 1953 for the all-Union hire except Moscow, Leningrad and the capitals of the republics of the Soviet Union, but then the Ministry of culture of the USSR imposed a complete ban on the production of the film "because of the extremely low ideological and artistic level." According to film critics Evgeny Margolit and Vyacheslav Shmyrov: "the film made by all the canons of the conflict-free theory and good fight with the best principle has lost all relevance in the new political environment".

Cast

 * Iya Arepina as Varya
 * Lev Frichinsky as Styopa
 * Nikolay Moskalenko as Alexey
 * Yuriy Sarantsev as Pshenytsyn
 * Georgi Gumilevsky as Pavel
 * Leonid Kmit
 * Boris Runge
 * Rimma Shorokhova
 * Valentina Telegina
 * Viktor Uralskiy
 * Pavel Volkov