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.
Aleqsandre Jaliashvili
Worker
Siko Palavandishvili
Red army soldier
Akaki Khorava
Chief of the train
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ლურსმანი ჩექმაში
December 31, 1931
53m
6.6
Mikhail Kalatozov
Leonid Perelman
16
JSC "Sakhkinmretsvi"
SU
Arkadi Khintibidze
Prosecutor
Kirile Macharadze
Chairman of the court (uncredited)
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