Heroic Deed Among the Ice details the mission of the ice-breaker
Krasin to rescue the crashed crew of
Umberto Nobile's arctic
airship Italia. The raw material shot without any plan by cameramen who accompanied
Krasin was used by Georgi and Sergei Vasilyev to create a coherent and powerful narrative in the tradition of
Soviet montage school.
Heroic Deed was released in October 1928 and its success helped Georgi and Sergei Vasilyev to realize their ambition to direct. All the editing notes by Vasilyev survive and have been published, but the film itself is partially
lost. == References ==