Dmitri Shostakovich
The Counterplan Song
The Counterplan Song (The Morning Greets Us With Coolness) (Russian: "Песня о встречном (Нас утро встречает прохладой") is a Soviet song created for the 1932 propaganda drama film Counterplan, which
History#
The song stems from and is featured prominently in Counterplan, a propaganda drama film about workers at a metal plan in Leningrad during the first five-year plan originally released on 7 November 1932. The music for the film was composed by Dmitri Shostakovich. The lyrics came from Boris Kornilov.
Other usage#
The song would later become popular abroad. The music or the song was used in the following: * “Au-devant de la vie”, a song of the French socialist movement, with new lyrics by Jeanne Perret. * “United Nations on the March”, with new lyrics by Harold Rome. That song was also used in the 1943 American film Thousands Cheer. * “Dmitri Shostakovich - Into the Cold Dawn”, a 2008 documentary on Shostakovich by German filmmaker Armin Mueller-Stahl, referenced the song in the title. * “Two Prosecutors”, a 2025 historical drama film about the Great Purge by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa used the song both in the third act and in the end credits.
- Composer
- Dmitri Shostakovich