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Time, Forward!
Directed bySofiya Milkina
Mikhail Shveytser
Written byValentin Kataev
Mikhail Shveytser
StarringSergei Yursky
Leonid Kuravlyov
Inna Gulaya
CinematographyNaum Ardashnikov
Yuri Gantman
Music byGeorgy Sviridov
Production
company
Release date
1965
Running time
158 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Time, Forward! (Template:Lang-ru, Vremya, vperyod!) is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Sofiya Milkina and Mikhail Shveytser based on a novel with the same name and a screenplay by Valentin Katayev. Composer Georgy Sviridov, sound by Lev Trakhtenberg. Production by Mosfilm by the order of Goskino.

The title is derived from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play Banya (Template:Lang-ru).

Plot summary

The action takes place in the 1930s. The film describes one day of the construction work of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (or Magnitka).

Cast

Theme

Sviridov's main theme for the film was one of the most recognizable music pieces of the Soviet era, and became a sort of calling card for the Soviet Union itself. Since 1986 it was used as the signature tune of Vremya, the TV news program on USSR Central Television and Russian Channel One.

The theme has been used in subsequent films, most notably Theodore Ushev's Tower Bawher and Guy Maddin's The Heart of the World. It was performed at the close of the 2010 Olympic ceremony in Vancouver, conducted live by Valery Gergiev, to present the 2014 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Russia.[1]

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