The Nail in the Boot
The Nail in the Boot

The Nail in the Boot

6.6

0 hr 53 min

1931-12-31

17

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.

Drama

War

Trailers

Characters

Aleqsandre Jaliashvili

Aleqsandre Jaliashvili

Worker

Siko Palavandishvili

Siko Palavandishvili

Red army soldier

Akaki Khorava

Akaki Khorava

Chief of the train

Arkadi Khintibidze

Arkadi Khintibidze

Prosecutor

Kirile Macharadze

Kirile Macharadze

Chairman of the court (uncredited)

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