How the Steel Was Tempered
Plot: This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.

Viktor Perest-Petrenko
Daniil Sagal
Nikolai Bubnov
Aleksandr Khvylya
Boris Runge
Vladimir Balashov
Władysław Krasnowiecki
Anton Dunaysky
Grigoriy Aronov
Nikolai Voloshin
Dmytro Karpa
Boris Andreyev
Yelena Anufriyeva
Mark Donskoy
Boris Monastyrsky
Rafail Perelstein
Lev Shvarts
Nikolai Ostrovsky