The Forty-First

A Red sharpshooter misses her forty-first man, a White lieutenant, and is stranded with him on an island in the Aral Sea. On the beach at the end she does not miss twice, and the film lets you count what that costs. Ada Vojtsik. Protazanov for Mezhrabpom, 1927, from Lavrenyov, sixty-six minutes; Chukhrai remade it in colour in 1956.