The First Echelon (, translit. Pervyy eshelon) is a 1955 Soviet film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, for which Dimitri Shostakovich wrote the music. A touching romance between the Secretary of the Komsomol organization Alexey Uzorov and tractor driver Anna Zalogina on the background of Virgin Lands Campaign in Kazakhstan. Cast Vsevolod Sanayev as Alexey Yegorovich Dontsov, state farm director Nikolay Annenkov as Kashtanov, secretary of the RC Oleg Yefremov as Alexey Uzorov Izolda Izvitskaya as Anna Zalogina Nina Doroshina as Nelly Panina Vyacheslav Voronin as Troyan Khoren Abrahamyan as Varten Vartanyan Tatiana Doronina as Zoya References External links Review by Karl J. Kipling] [https://books.google.com/books?id=ti0aXbGZPS8C&pg=PT265&dq=The+First+Echelon+kalatozov&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSgPOAkoTSAhXrC5oKHV5YBGsQ6AEISTAG#v=onepage&q=The%20First%20Echelon%20kalatozov&f=false The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich 1955 films Films directed by Mikhail Kalatozov Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich 1955 drama films Soviet drama films Mosfilm films 1950s Russian-language films