Counterplan (Russian: Встречный, romanized: Vstrechnyy) is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich and Fridrikh Ermler.
The secretary of the party committee calls an emergency meeting, and an intoxicated Babchenko bursts in, carrying a black "flag of shame" he had ripped from his lathe.
They find an abandoned lathe and restore it, but another setback occurs when worker Chutochkin discovers a design flaw in the blueprint, previously noticed by engineer Skvortsov, who had concealed it due to being a secret opponent of Soviet power.
Shostakovich's composition, with new lyrics by Jeanne Perret, would be used shortly after in the notable song of the French socialist movement, "Au-devant de la vie".
In 1942 the song was given English words by Harold J. Rome under the title "United Nations on the March" and in this guise it was featured as the choral finale to MGM's patriotic war-time musical Thousands Cheer (1943).