Lev Mikhailovich Dameshek,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Russian History, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
At War as at War (Notes of the Son of the Main Character of the Film)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-5-17
The memoirs of the famous historian Lev Mikhailovich Dameshek about his father, Mikhail Leontievich Dameshek, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, are published. The front-line biography of M.L. Dameshek formed the basis of Viktor Kurochkin’s novel “At War as at War” and the film of the same name, directed by Viktor Tregubovich and released in 1969. Mikhail Leontievich himself became the prototype of the main character of the film, Sergeant Mikhail Domeshek (performed by People’s Artist of the USSR Oleg Borisov). The author of the memoirs tells about the life path and character of his father, about meetings with his comrades in arms. The text is accompanied by photographs and quotations from rare documents stored in the Dameshek family archive.
Publishing: 28/10/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 11/07/2022
How to cite: Dameshek L.M. At War as at War (Notes of the Son of the Main Character of the Film) // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 5 (25), pp. 204–212. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-5-17.pdf]
Links: Issue 5 2022
Keywords: Soviet cinema; films about the Great Patriotic War; the movie “At War as at War”; the main character; Mikhail Leontievich Dameshek; memories about father