Watch The Nail in the Boot (1932) Online

Banned in the Soviet Union for its "negative" content and never released, Kalatozov was forced to retreat from filmmaking for seven years because of this film. The film sets out to illustrate the old adage, "For want of a nail, the battle was lost," showing how the inferior quality of something so trivial as a nail in a soldier's boot leads inexorably to the capture of an armored train. Kalatozov had intended to demonstrate the crucial and universal importance of efficiency in Soviet industry, but the government decided that his fable gave a negative impression of the Red Army's capabilities. Read More

Watch The Nail in the Boot online. Featuring Aleksandre Jaliashvili and Siko Palavandishvili, The Nail in the Boot is classified as Drama and War genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Georgia and was released on 1932. The Nail in the Boot was directed by Arkadi Khintibidze,Mikhail Kalatozov. Read Less