title: The District Secretary
text: # The District Secretary
  
  The District Secretary, (Russian: Секретарь райкома) is a 1942 Soviet drama film directed by Ivan Pyryev.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The film takes place in the first year of the Great Patriotic War. The plot is based on the fight between the commander of the partisan detachment and the Secretary of the District Committee of Kochet with Colonel Makenau.
  
  ## Starring
  
  * Vasili Vanin as District Secretary Stepan Gavrilovich Kochet
  * Marina Ladynina as Natasha
  * Viktor Kulakov as Lt. Herman Albrecht, alias Lt. Orlov
  * Mikhail Astangov as Nazi Col. Makenau
  * Boris Poslavsky as Semyen Abramovich Rotman
  * Mikhail Kuznetsov as Sasha Rusov
  * Mikhail Zharov as Gavril Fedorovich Rusov
  * Tatyana Govorkova as The Hostess (uncredited)
  * Yevgeni Grigorev as Vasiliy Glushchenko (uncredited)
  * Leonid Kulakov as German (uncredited)
  * Sofya Levitina as Lady at the identity parade (uncredited)
  