Least We Forget

Least We Forget (Russian: Об этом забывать нельзя, romanized: Ob etom zabyvat nelzya) is a 1954 Soviet film directed by Leonid Lukov.^[1][2][3]

Least We Forget
Russian: Об этом забывать нельзя
Directed by	Leonid Lukov
Written by	Leonid Lukov Dmitro Pavlychko Yakov Smolyak
Starring	Sergey Bondarchuk Lidiya Smirnova Olga Zhizneva Yelena Gogoleva Nikolai Plotnikov Aleksandr Khvylya
Cinematography	Vladimir Rapoport
Music by	Matvei Blanter
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Release date	1954 (1954)
Running time	108 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

The film is based on the real life story of Yaroslav Galan.^[4][5][6]

The film tells about the confrontation of Garmash, a famous writer, poet and active propagandist of the Soviet government, in Western Ukraine with an organized criminal group that defends and promotes the interests of the West and would kill Garmash if they cannot otherwise silence him.^[7]

Cast

• Sergey Bondarchuk as Aleksandr Yakovlevich Garmash
• Lidiya Smirnova as Anna Dashenko^[8]
• Olga Zhiznyeva as Yevdokina Sergeyevna Garmash
• Yelena Gogoleva as Mariya Spiridonovna Bantysh
• Nikolai Plotnikov as Vsevolod Yevgenevich Yarchuk
• Aleksandr Khvylya as Leonid Gavrilovich Korshun
• Valentina Ushakova as Galina Korshun
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Rostislav Dankovich^[9]
• Nikolay Kryuchkov as Rodion Yegorov^[10]
• Vera Orlova as Glasha
• Boris Tenin as Maryan Maksimovich, investigator
• Georgi Yumatov as a student