---
title: 'The Thirteen (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mikhail Romm'
released: '1937-05-08'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-thirteen-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028413/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Thirteen (1937)

1937 · 90 min · Adventure, War · Soviet Union

Original title: Тринадцать

## Synopsis

The Thirteen is a 1937 Soviet epic Ostern action adventure film directed by Mikhail Romm. Starring Ivan Novoseltsev and Yelena Kuzmina, it depicts a group of Red Army soldiers and civilians who fight to defend an essential desert well from a group of Basmachi bandits in Central Asia. The film was commissioned by Joseph Stalin as a Soviet adaptation of John Ford's film The Lost Patrol.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mikhail Romm](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-romm)
- **Screenplay:** [Mikhail Romm](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-romm), [Iosif Prut](https://cinepixo.com/people/iosif-prut)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoly-nikolayevich-alexandrov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Boris Volchek](https://cinepixo.com/people/boris-volchek)

## Cast

- [Ivan Novoseltsev](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-novoseltsev)
- [Nikolai Kryuchkov](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-kryuchkov)
- [Andrei Fajt](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrei-fajt)
- [Stepan Krylov](https://cinepixo.com/people/stepan-krylov)
- [Yelena Kuzmina](https://cinepixo.com/people/yelena-kuzmina)

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