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The Great Dawn
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The Great Dawn

Directed by
Mikheil Chiaureli
Produced by
L. Totadze
Written by
Giorgi Tsagareli
Screenplay by
Pyotr Pavlenko, Giorgi Tsagareli
Starring
Mikheil Gelovani
Music by
Ivane Gokieli
Cinematography
Aleqsandre Digmelovi
Edited by
E. Gabrieli
Production
 company
Tbilisi Film Studio

Release dates
6 November 1938
Running time
73 minutes
Country
Georgian SSR
Language
Russian
External images
 1938 poster of The Great Dawn.
The Great Dawn (Georgian: დიადი განთიადი, trans. Diadi Gant’iadi; Russian: Великое зарево, trans. Velikoe Zarevo. English-language title: They Wanted Peace.) is a 1938 Soviet Georgian film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. It is considered a representation of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
Cast[edit]
Konstantin Myuffke as Vladimir Lenin
Mikheil Gelovani as Joseph Stalin
Spartak Bagashvili as Georgi Gudushauri
Tamara Makarova as Svetlana
Nutsa Chkheidze as Gudushauri's mother
Anna Smirnova as Svetlana's mother
Basil Matov as Ershov
Dmitry Ivanov as Panasyuk
Georgi Sagaradze as Tsereteli
Michael Chikhladze as Colonel Mikeladze
Ivan Perestiani as general
Alexander Zhorzholiani as surgeon
Shalva Gambashidze as Karkumidze
Georgi Shavgulidze as Paul Gudushauri
Piotr Morskoi as Deryugin
Boris Poltavtsev as Yakov Sverdlov
Production[edit]
The Great Dawn was part of a group of films made in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution, which also included Lenin in October and The Vyborg Side; since Sergei Eisenstein's October, it became customary to release pictures about the revolution with each decade anniversary to it.[1] The film was the first in a series of four which director Chiaureli directed with Joseph Stalin as their main theme, and the marked Mikheil Gelovani's first appearance as Stalin on screen - a role he since played in thirteen other productions.[2][3]
Reception[edit]
By April 1939, the picture was already viewed by some 15,000,000 people.[4] In 1941, Chiaureli and Gelovani both won the Stalin Prize, 1st class, for their work on the film.[5]
The Great Dawn was released in the United States in 1940. New York Times' critic interpreted its distribution there as being influenced by the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, writing: "conforming with the pact and the new party line, Soviet filmmakers now tell the world that the Russian and the German comrades would have reconciled back in 1917 if it hadn't been for the Anglo-French "imperialists"... The rest of it is in the familiar vein of Soviet lily-gilding."[6]
Historian Peter Kenez viewed the film as the one "best anticipating the future of Stalin's image" in cinema, noting that Chiaureli allowed him to "escape Lenin's shadow" and turned him to the one the revolutionaries looked up to for leadership.[7] Cinema scholar Nikolas Hülbusch regarded The Great Dawn as "the first contribution of the Tbilisi Studio to Stalin's cult of personality",[8] noting that the premier's character began to exhibit the traits that would define it in later propaganda films, like the ability to mellow out the romantic relationships of his followers.[9] Antonin and Mira Liehm commented that the picture was the first to clearly portray Stalin in the forefront of the Revolution and as Lenin's "closest collaborator and successor".[10] Olga Romanova saw the film as the beginning of a long process, during which Lenin's image in cinema would slowly fade away and allow Stalin to take precedence.[11]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Evgeni Dobrenko. Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution. Edinburgh University Press (2003). ISBN 978-0-7486-3445-3. Page 192.
2.Jump up ^ John Riley. Dmitri Shostakovich: a Life in Film. I.B. Tauris (2005). ISBN 978-1-85043-484-9. page 68.
3.Jump up ^ ^ Richard Taylor, D. W. Spring. Stalinism and Soviet cinema. Routledg (1993). ISBN 978-0-415-07285-4. page 88.
4.Jump up ^ Kyril Anderson. Kremlevskij Kinoteatr. 1928-1953: Dokumenty. Rospen Press (2005). ISBN 978-5-8243-0532-6. p. 539.
5.Jump up ^ The Great Dawn. russiancinema.ru.
6.Jump up ^ MOVIE REVIEW: THE SCREEN. New York Times, 8 January 1940.
7.Jump up ^ Peter Kenez. Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin. I.B. Tauris (2001). ISBN 978-1-86064-632-4. Pages 208.
8.Jump up ^ Nikolas Hülbusch. Im Spiegelkabinett des Diktators: Stalin als Filmheld im sowjetischen Spielfilm (1937-1953). Coppi (2001). ISBN 978-3-930258-75-8. Page 93.
9.Jump up ^ Klaus Heller, Jan Plamper‏ (editors). Personality cults in Stalinism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2004). ISBN 978-3-89971-191-2. Page 229.
10.Jump up ^ Miera Liehm, Antonin J. Liehm. The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945. ISBN 0-520-04128-3. Page 52.
11.Jump up ^ Olga Romanova. The Campaign to Mythologize Stalin. urokiistorii.ru.
External links[edit]
They Wanted Peace on the IMDb.
The Great Dawn on kino-teatr.ru.
The Great Dawn on geocinema.ge.


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The Great Dawn
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The Great Dawn

Directed by
Mikheil Chiaureli
Produced by
L. Totadze
Written by
Giorgi Tsagareli
Screenplay by
Pyotr Pavlenko, Giorgi Tsagareli
Starring
Mikheil Gelovani
Music by
Ivane Gokieli
Cinematography
Aleqsandre Digmelovi
Edited by
E. Gabrieli
Production
 company
Tbilisi Film Studio

Release dates
6 November 1938
Running time
73 minutes
Country
Georgian SSR
Language
Russian
External images
 1938 poster of The Great Dawn.
The Great Dawn (Georgian: დიადი განთიადი, trans. Diadi Gant’iadi; Russian: Великое зарево, trans. Velikoe Zarevo. English-language title: They Wanted Peace.) is a 1938 Soviet Georgian film directed by Mikheil Chiaureli. It is considered a representation of Joseph Stalin's cult of personality.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Plot[edit]
In 1917, the people of the Russian Empire are no longer willing to fight Germany, but the bourgeois government of Alexander Kerensky is unwilling to defy its imperialist allies and stop the war. Only Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party is resolute in calling for peace. In the front, the soldiers of one battalion elect three delegates to travel to St. Petersburg with donations the troops collected for the Pravda newspaper: Gudushauri, Panasiuk and Ershov. The three arrive in the capital and describe the horrendous conditions in which the soldiers live to Joseph Stalin, Lenin's trusted aid and colleague. They join the Bolsheviks and take part in the storming of the Winter Palace, led by Stalin and Lenin. Stalin announces that the great dawn of revolution has broken.
Cast[edit]
Konstantin Myuffke as Vladimir Lenin
Mikheil Gelovani as Joseph Stalin
Spartak Bagashvili as Georgi Gudushauri
Tamara Makarova as Svetlana
Nutsa Chkheidze as Gudushauri's mother
Anna Smirnova as Svetlana's mother
Basil Matov as Ershov
Dmitry Ivanov as Panasyuk
Georgi Sagaradze as Tsereteli
Michael Chikhladze as Colonel Mikeladze
Ivan Perestiani as general
Alexander Zhorzholiani as surgeon
Shalva Gambashidze as Karkumidze
Georgi Shavgulidze as Paul Gudushauri
Piotr Morskoi as Deryugin
Boris Poltavtsev as Yakov Sverdlov
Production[edit]
The Great Dawn was part of a group of films made in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution, which also included Lenin in October and The Vyborg Side; since Sergei Eisenstein's October, it became customary to release pictures about the revolution with each decade anniversary to it.[1] The film was the first in a series of four which director Chiaureli directed with Joseph Stalin as their main theme, and the marked Mikheil Gelovani's first appearance as Stalin on screen - a role he since played in thirteen other productions.[2][3]
Reception[edit]
By April 1939, the picture was already viewed by some 15,000,000 people.[4] In 1941, Chiaureli and Gelovani both won the Stalin Prize, 1st class, for their work on the film.[5]
The Great Dawn was released in the United States in 1940. New York Times' critic interpreted its distribution there as being influenced by the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, writing: "conforming with the pact and the new party line, Soviet filmmakers now tell the world that the Russian and the German comrades would have reconciled back in 1917 if it hadn't been for the Anglo-French "imperialists"... The rest of it is in the familiar vein of Soviet lily-gilding."[6]
Historian Peter Kenez viewed the film as the one "best anticipating the future of Stalin's image" in cinema, noting that Chiaureli allowed him to "escape Lenin's shadow" and turned him to the one the revolutionaries looked up to for leadership.[7] Cinema scholar Nikolas Hülbusch regarded The Great Dawn as "the first contribution of the Tbilisi Studio to Stalin's cult of personality",[8] noting that the premier's character began to exhibit the traits that would define it in later propaganda films, like the ability to mellow out the romantic relationships of his followers.[9] Antonin and Mira Liehm commented that the picture was the first to clearly portray Stalin in the forefront of the Revolution and as Lenin's "closest collaborator and successor".[10] Olga Romanova saw the film as the beginning of a long process, during which Lenin's image in cinema would slowly fade away and allow Stalin to take precedence.[11]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Evgeni Dobrenko. Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution. Edinburgh University Press (2003). ISBN 978-0-7486-3445-3. Page 192.
2.Jump up ^ John Riley. Dmitri Shostakovich: a Life in Film. I.B. Tauris (2005). ISBN 978-1-85043-484-9. page 68.
3.Jump up ^ ^ Richard Taylor, D. W. Spring. Stalinism and Soviet cinema. Routledg (1993). ISBN 978-0-415-07285-4. page 88.
4.Jump up ^ Kyril Anderson. Kremlevskij Kinoteatr. 1928-1953: Dokumenty. Rospen Press (2005). ISBN 978-5-8243-0532-6. p. 539.
5.Jump up ^ The Great Dawn. russiancinema.ru.
6.Jump up ^ MOVIE REVIEW: THE SCREEN. New York Times, 8 January 1940.
7.Jump up ^ Peter Kenez. Cinema and Soviet Society from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin. I.B. Tauris (2001). ISBN 978-1-86064-632-4. Pages 208.
8.Jump up ^ Nikolas Hülbusch. Im Spiegelkabinett des Diktators: Stalin als Filmheld im sowjetischen Spielfilm (1937-1953). Coppi (2001). ISBN 978-3-930258-75-8. Page 93.
9.Jump up ^ Klaus Heller, Jan Plamper‏ (editors). Personality cults in Stalinism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2004). ISBN 978-3-89971-191-2. Page 229.
10.Jump up ^ Miera Liehm, Antonin J. Liehm. The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945. ISBN 0-520-04128-3. Page 52.
11.Jump up ^ Olga Romanova. The Campaign to Mythologize Stalin. urokiistorii.ru.
External links[edit]
They Wanted Peace on the IMDb.
The Great Dawn on kino-teatr.ru.
The Great Dawn on geocinema.ge.


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Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
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Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
 The other Perbrandt

Directed by
Johannes Meyer
Produced by
Bavaria Film company, Munich
Written by
Max W. Kimmich
 Jacob Geis (dialogues)
Starring
Hans Albers
Charlotte Susa
Jack Trevor
Ernst Dumcke
Production
 company
Bavaria Studios, Geiselgasteig near Munich

Distributed by
Bavarian Film company, Munich
Release dates
December 19, 1935

Country
Nazi Germany
Language
German
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (German: Henker, Frauen und Soldaten) is a propaganda film made by the German filmmaker Johannes Meyer in 1935. It was produced with the Bavaria film company in Munich. The screenplay was written by Max W. Kimmich and Jacob Geis after the novel A Fellow Named Prack written by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen.


Contents  [hide]
1 Summary
2 Background
3 Cast
4 References

Summary[edit]
Cavalry captain Michael von Prack, a keen pilot from World War I, is taken prisoner by British troops in Asia Minor in 1918. However, he seizes the chance to escape to his homeland East Prussia with a ready-for-take-off British plane. At home, he gets involved in the post-war turmoil because meanwhile the war is over.
In a bar, Michael comes across a captain Eckau who is recruiting former regular soldiers to fight in a Freikorps against Russia despite the German surrender. Michael joins the troops and, at the same time, meets lovely Vera Iwanowna. She considers him to be his cousin, Russian general Alexej Alexandrowitsch von Prack, with whom she is in love, because the two men are as like as two peas. Alexej, who cannot stand his cousin Michael since their childhood, commands the Russian troops standing against the Freikorps.
While driving into the warzone, Michael re-meets Vera who is not only Alexej's lover, but also a Russian spy. Meanwhile she has learned that he is Alexejs German cousin, but nevertheless spends a night with him before returning to the Russian headquarters.
When Alexej learns that Vera has met his hated cousin who is commander of the enemy's troops, he swears him death and sets a trap for the Freikorps by luring them into a swamp. In this situation he demands Michael to meet him personally, and the two men fight against each other. Alexej dies through the fight, Michael gets severely wounded.
Because the latter does not wear his uniform jacket, the Russians consider him to be the general and take him to their headquarters. Although Vera recognizes him immediately, Michael is able to act as the general and to discover important military secrets. He also gives the Russians orders that in fact improve the situation of the Freikorps.
Meanwhile Vera is wavering between love and patriotism. Finally she reveals everything to the Russian commissar because her patriotism is stronger than her love to Michael. The latter is, however, able to escape and to return to his soldiers before being arrested.
Now that they know the deployment plans of the Russians, the Freikorps attacks them from the back. Michael is killed during the fights, Vera dies when the Freikorps fires at the Russian headquarters.
Background[edit]
This film was made to defend the deployment of Freikorps in armed conflicts. It passed censorship December 11, 1935, and was first shown to the public a week later. The movie was rewarded "artificially valuable" by film checkers of the propaganda ministry. (This attribute was given to films that fulfilled special aesthetic criteria besides the actors´ performances. It meant that cinemas had to pay less entertainment tax when showing this film.)
Moreover, Goebbels himself was also taken by it (which did not always mean the same than pleasing the critics). On December 11, 1935, he wrote in his diary "an exciting and adorable film with (Hans) Albers."
After the war, it was banned by the Allies.
Cast[edit]

actor
role
Hans Albers Cavalry captain Michael von Prack
(dual role) General Alexej Alexandrowitsch von Prack
Charlotte Susa Vera Iwanowna
Jack Trevor Captain MacCallum
Ernst Dumcke captain Eckau
Aribert Wäscher general manager Brosuleit
Hubert von Meyerinck cavalry captain Lensberg
Annie Markart Marianne, called Mary
Otto Wernicke Pieter Timm
Gustav Püttjer Tetje Eckers
Fritz Genschow Buschke
Gerhard Bienert Kossmann
References[edit]
Klaus, Ulrich J.: German soundfilms. Film encyclopedia of full-length German and German-speaking sound films, sorted by their German first showings. - Ulrich J. Klaus. - Berlin [et al.] (Klaus-archive, Vol. 4. - 1935.)
 


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Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
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Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
 The other Perbrandt

Directed by
Johannes Meyer
Produced by
Bavaria Film company, Munich
Written by
Max W. Kimmich
 Jacob Geis (dialogues)
Starring
Hans Albers
Charlotte Susa
Jack Trevor
Ernst Dumcke
Production
 company
Bavaria Studios, Geiselgasteig near Munich

Distributed by
Bavarian Film company, Munich
Release dates
December 19, 1935

Country
Nazi Germany
Language
German
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers (German: Henker, Frauen und Soldaten) is a propaganda film made by the German filmmaker Johannes Meyer in 1935. It was produced with the Bavaria film company in Munich. The screenplay was written by Max W. Kimmich and Jacob Geis after the novel A Fellow Named Prack written by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen.


Contents  [hide]
1 Summary
2 Background
3 Cast
4 References

Summary[edit]
Cavalry captain Michael von Prack, a keen pilot from World War I, is taken prisoner by British troops in Asia Minor in 1918. However, he seizes the chance to escape to his homeland East Prussia with a ready-for-take-off British plane. At home, he gets involved in the post-war turmoil because meanwhile the war is over.
In a bar, Michael comes across a captain Eckau who is recruiting former regular soldiers to fight in a Freikorps against Russia despite the German surrender. Michael joins the troops and, at the same time, meets lovely Vera Iwanowna. She considers him to be his cousin, Russian general Alexej Alexandrowitsch von Prack, with whom she is in love, because the two men are as like as two peas. Alexej, who cannot stand his cousin Michael since their childhood, commands the Russian troops standing against the Freikorps.
While driving into the warzone, Michael re-meets Vera who is not only Alexej's lover, but also a Russian spy. Meanwhile she has learned that he is Alexejs German cousin, but nevertheless spends a night with him before returning to the Russian headquarters.
When Alexej learns that Vera has met his hated cousin who is commander of the enemy's troops, he swears him death and sets a trap for the Freikorps by luring them into a swamp. In this situation he demands Michael to meet him personally, and the two men fight against each other. Alexej dies through the fight, Michael gets severely wounded.
Because the latter does not wear his uniform jacket, the Russians consider him to be the general and take him to their headquarters. Although Vera recognizes him immediately, Michael is able to act as the general and to discover important military secrets. He also gives the Russians orders that in fact improve the situation of the Freikorps.
Meanwhile Vera is wavering between love and patriotism. Finally she reveals everything to the Russian commissar because her patriotism is stronger than her love to Michael. The latter is, however, able to escape and to return to his soldiers before being arrested.
Now that they know the deployment plans of the Russians, the Freikorps attacks them from the back. Michael is killed during the fights, Vera dies when the Freikorps fires at the Russian headquarters.
Background[edit]
This film was made to defend the deployment of Freikorps in armed conflicts. It passed censorship December 11, 1935, and was first shown to the public a week later. The movie was rewarded "artificially valuable" by film checkers of the propaganda ministry. (This attribute was given to films that fulfilled special aesthetic criteria besides the actors´ performances. It meant that cinemas had to pay less entertainment tax when showing this film.)
Moreover, Goebbels himself was also taken by it (which did not always mean the same than pleasing the critics). On December 11, 1935, he wrote in his diary "an exciting and adorable film with (Hans) Albers."
After the war, it was banned by the Allies.
Cast[edit]

actor
role
Hans Albers Cavalry captain Michael von Prack
(dual role) General Alexej Alexandrowitsch von Prack
Charlotte Susa Vera Iwanowna
Jack Trevor Captain MacCallum
Ernst Dumcke captain Eckau
Aribert Wäscher general manager Brosuleit
Hubert von Meyerinck cavalry captain Lensberg
Annie Markart Marianne, called Mary
Otto Wernicke Pieter Timm
Gustav Püttjer Tetje Eckers
Fritz Genschow Buschke
Gerhard Bienert Kossmann
References[edit]
Klaus, Ulrich J.: German soundfilms. Film encyclopedia of full-length German and German-speaking sound films, sorted by their German first showings. - Ulrich J. Klaus. - Berlin [et al.] (Klaus-archive, Vol. 4. - 1935.)
 


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Knight Without Armour
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Knight Without Armour
Knight Without Armour.jpg
U.S. film poster as reproduced on bookcover

Directed by
Jacques Feyder
Produced by
Alexander Korda
Written by
Lajos Bíró
Frances Marion
James Hilton (novel)
 Arthur Wimperis (additional dialogue)
Starring
Marlene Dietrich
Robert Donat
Music by
Miklós Rózsa
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cinematography
Harry Stradling Sr.
Edited by
Francis D. Lyon
Production
 company
London Film Productions

Distributed by
United Artists
Release dates
1 June 1937
Running time
107 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Knight Without Armour (styled as Knight Without Armor in some releases) is a 1937 British historical drama film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Jacques Feyder and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Bíró adapted by Frances Marion from the 1933 novel of the same title by James Hilton. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, his first for a motion picture, utilising additional music by Tchaikovsky.
The film stars Marlene Dietrich as Alexandra Adraxine and Robert Donat as A.J. Fothergill. Filmed on a budget of near $1 million, Knight Without Armour became an expensive box office failure, making roughly $750,000 worldwide.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Further reading
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Englishman A. J. Fothergill (Robert Donat) is recruited by Colonel Forrester (Laurence Hanray) to spy on Russia for the British government because he can speak the language fluently. As "Peter Ouranoff", he infiltrates a revolutionary group led by Axelstein (Basil Gill). The radicals try to blow up General Gregor Vladinoff (Herbert Lomas), the father of Alexandra (Marlene Dietrich). When the attempt fails, the would-be assassin is shot, but manages to reach Peter's apartment, where he dies. For his inadvertent involvement, Peter is sent to Siberia.



 Alexandra enjoying an all-too-brief respite from the war
World War I makes Alexandra a widow and brings the Bolsheviks to power, freeing Peter and Axelstein. When the Russian Civil War breaks out, Alexandra is arrested for being an aristocrat, and Peter is assigned by now-Commissar Axelstein to take her to Petrograd to stand trial. However, Peter instead takes her to the safety of the White Army. Their relief is short-lived; the Red Army defeats the White the next day, and Alexandra is taken captive once more. Peter steals a commission as a commissar of prisons from a drunk and uses the document to free her. The two, now deeply in love, flee into the forest. Later, they catch a train.
At a railway station, the countess is identified by one Communist official, but Commissar Poushkoff (John Clements), an overly sensitive young man, is entranced by Alexandra's beauty. Insisting that her identity be verified, he arranges to take her and Fothergill to Samara. Along the way, they become good friends, but Poushkoff grows overwrought after drinking too much brandy with dinner aboard the train. He then allows the couple to escape at a stop, committing suicide to provide a diversion.
The lovers board a barge travelling down the Volga River. Alexandra becomes seriously ill. When Peter goes for a doctor, he is arrested by the Whites for not having papers. Meanwhile, a Red Cross doctor finds Alexandra and takes her for treatment. About to be executed, Peter makes a break for it and catches the Red Cross train transporting Alexandra out of Russia.
Cast[edit]
Marlene Dietrich as Alexandra Adraxine, née Vladinoff
Robert Donat as A.J. Fothergill / "Peter Ouranoff"
Irene Vanbrugh as Duchess
Herbert Lomas as General Gregor Vladinoff
Austin Trevor as Colonel Adraxine, Alexandra's husband
Basil Gill as Axelstein
David Tree as Maronin
John Clements as Poushkoff
Frederick Culley as Stanfield
Laurence Hanray as Colonel Forester
Dorice Fordred as the Maid
Franklin Kelsey as Tomsky
Laurence Baskcomb as Commissar
Hay Petrie as Station Master
Miles Malleson as Drunken Red Commissar
According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Donat suffered a severe, week-long bout of his chronic asthma during production, causing Alexander Korda to consider replacing him. Dietrich persuaded him to wait until Donat had recovered.
Further reading[edit]
Street, Sarah (2005). "Sets of the imagination: Lazare Meerson, set design and performance in Knight Without Armour (1937)". Journal of British Cinema and Television (Edinburgh University Press) 2 (1): 18–35. doi:10.3366/jbctv.2005.2.1.18.
External links[edit]
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Knight Without Armour
Knight Without Armour.jpg
U.S. film poster as reproduced on bookcover

Directed by
Jacques Feyder
Produced by
Alexander Korda
Written by
Lajos Bíró
Frances Marion
James Hilton (novel)
 Arthur Wimperis (additional dialogue)
Starring
Marlene Dietrich
Robert Donat
Music by
Miklós Rózsa
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cinematography
Harry Stradling Sr.
Edited by
Francis D. Lyon
Production
 company
London Film Productions

Distributed by
United Artists
Release dates
1 June 1937
Running time
107 minutes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Knight Without Armour (styled as Knight Without Armor in some releases) is a 1937 British historical drama film made by London Films and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by Jacques Feyder and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Lajos Bíró adapted by Frances Marion from the 1933 novel of the same title by James Hilton. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, his first for a motion picture, utilising additional music by Tchaikovsky.
The film stars Marlene Dietrich as Alexandra Adraxine and Robert Donat as A.J. Fothergill. Filmed on a budget of near $1 million, Knight Without Armour became an expensive box office failure, making roughly $750,000 worldwide.


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2 Cast
3 Further reading
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Englishman A. J. Fothergill (Robert Donat) is recruited by Colonel Forrester (Laurence Hanray) to spy on Russia for the British government because he can speak the language fluently. As "Peter Ouranoff", he infiltrates a revolutionary group led by Axelstein (Basil Gill). The radicals try to blow up General Gregor Vladinoff (Herbert Lomas), the father of Alexandra (Marlene Dietrich). When the attempt fails, the would-be assassin is shot, but manages to reach Peter's apartment, where he dies. For his inadvertent involvement, Peter is sent to Siberia.



 Alexandra enjoying an all-too-brief respite from the war
World War I makes Alexandra a widow and brings the Bolsheviks to power, freeing Peter and Axelstein. When the Russian Civil War breaks out, Alexandra is arrested for being an aristocrat, and Peter is assigned by now-Commissar Axelstein to take her to Petrograd to stand trial. However, Peter instead takes her to the safety of the White Army. Their relief is short-lived; the Red Army defeats the White the next day, and Alexandra is taken captive once more. Peter steals a commission as a commissar of prisons from a drunk and uses the document to free her. The two, now deeply in love, flee into the forest. Later, they catch a train.
At a railway station, the countess is identified by one Communist official, but Commissar Poushkoff (John Clements), an overly sensitive young man, is entranced by Alexandra's beauty. Insisting that her identity be verified, he arranges to take her and Fothergill to Samara. Along the way, they become good friends, but Poushkoff grows overwrought after drinking too much brandy with dinner aboard the train. He then allows the couple to escape at a stop, committing suicide to provide a diversion.
The lovers board a barge travelling down the Volga River. Alexandra becomes seriously ill. When Peter goes for a doctor, he is arrested by the Whites for not having papers. Meanwhile, a Red Cross doctor finds Alexandra and takes her for treatment. About to be executed, Peter makes a break for it and catches the Red Cross train transporting Alexandra out of Russia.
Cast[edit]
Marlene Dietrich as Alexandra Adraxine, née Vladinoff
Robert Donat as A.J. Fothergill / "Peter Ouranoff"
Irene Vanbrugh as Duchess
Herbert Lomas as General Gregor Vladinoff
Austin Trevor as Colonel Adraxine, Alexandra's husband
Basil Gill as Axelstein
David Tree as Maronin
John Clements as Poushkoff
Frederick Culley as Stanfield
Laurence Hanray as Colonel Forester
Dorice Fordred as the Maid
Franklin Kelsey as Tomsky
Laurence Baskcomb as Commissar
Hay Petrie as Station Master
Miles Malleson as Drunken Red Commissar
According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, Donat suffered a severe, week-long bout of his chronic asthma during production, causing Alexander Korda to consider replacing him. Dietrich persuaded him to wait until Donat had recovered.
Further reading[edit]
Street, Sarah (2005). "Sets of the imagination: Lazare Meerson, set design and performance in Knight Without Armour (1937)". Journal of British Cinema and Television (Edinburgh University Press) 2 (1): 18–35. doi:10.3366/jbctv.2005.2.1.18.
External links[edit]
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
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The Love of Jeanne Ney

Directed by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written by
Ilja Ehrenburg
Rudolf Leonhardt
Ladislaus Vajda
Starring
Édith Jéhanne
Cinematography
Robert Lach
 Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
 Marc Sorkin
Release dates
6 December 1927

Running time
100 minutes
Country
Weimar Republic
Language
Silent
 German intertitles
The Love of Jeanne Ney (German: Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney, released as Lusts of the Flesh in the United Kingdom) is a 1927 silent German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.[1]


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2 Cast
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Jeanne (Edith Jehanne) is the daughter of Alfred Ney, a French diplomat and political observer. The family is based in Russia during the post-revolutionary civil war. Her father is set up by the scheming Khalibiev, who sells him a list of Bolshevik agents that includes Jeanne's lover, Andreas Labov (Uno Henning). The information is leaked by Alfred's Chinese servant, though Khalibiev isn't implicated. With the revolutionary army about to storm the city, Andreas is forced to execute Jeanne's father. She is horrified, but urges Andreas to run for his life. He warns her that it is she who must run, as the Red Army will soon occupy the town. She escapes with the help of a homely soldier, who's become smitten with her.
Jeanne flees to Paris, followed by Khalibiev and Andreas. She takes a job as a secretary under her uncle Raymond (Adolph Edgar Licho), a private detective. Khalibiev sets about seducing Raymond's blind daughter, Gabrielle (Brigitte Helm), in order to rob her and run away with a flapper he meets at a bar. The latter girl balks and warns Raymond, who has meanwhile been searching for a stolen diamond with a $50,000 reward. The diamond turns out to have been swallowed by a shiny-object-loving parrot.
Raymond, who has become hopelessly obsessed with Jeanne, tries to force himself on her and loses his grip on reality. That night Khalibiev sneaks in, strangles him, and steals the money. He frames Andreas by letting the blind Gabrielle grab his coat while he flees the scenes of the crime (he stole the coat from Andreas) and dropping a wallet with Andreas's photo. Andreas is caught delivering money for the communist party in France, which makes him look all the more suspicious. Jeanne thinks to use Khalibiev as an alibi, without realizing he is the murderer.
Cast[edit]
Édith Jéhanne as Jeanne Ney
Uno Henning as Andreas Labov
Fritz Rasp as Khalibiev
Brigitte Helm as Gabrielle
Adolf E. Licho as Raymond Ney
Eugen Jensen as Andre Ney
Hans Jaray as Poitras
Sig Arno as Gaston (as Siegfried Arno)
Hertha von Walther as Margot
Vladimir Sokoloff as Zacharkiewicz
Jack Trevor
Mammey Terja-Basa
Josefine Dora
Heinrich Gotho
Margarete Kupfer (as Küpfer)
Robert Scholz
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Love of Jeanne Ney". Silent Era. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
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The Love of Jeanne Ney

Directed by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Written by
Ilja Ehrenburg
Rudolf Leonhardt
Ladislaus Vajda
Starring
Édith Jéhanne
Cinematography
Robert Lach
 Fritz Arno Wagner
Edited by
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
 Marc Sorkin
Release dates
6 December 1927

Running time
100 minutes
Country
Weimar Republic
Language
Silent
 German intertitles
The Love of Jeanne Ney (German: Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney, released as Lusts of the Flesh in the United Kingdom) is a 1927 silent German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 References
4 External links

Plot[edit]
Jeanne (Edith Jehanne) is the daughter of Alfred Ney, a French diplomat and political observer. The family is based in Russia during the post-revolutionary civil war. Her father is set up by the scheming Khalibiev, who sells him a list of Bolshevik agents that includes Jeanne's lover, Andreas Labov (Uno Henning). The information is leaked by Alfred's Chinese servant, though Khalibiev isn't implicated. With the revolutionary army about to storm the city, Andreas is forced to execute Jeanne's father. She is horrified, but urges Andreas to run for his life. He warns her that it is she who must run, as the Red Army will soon occupy the town. She escapes with the help of a homely soldier, who's become smitten with her.
Jeanne flees to Paris, followed by Khalibiev and Andreas. She takes a job as a secretary under her uncle Raymond (Adolph Edgar Licho), a private detective. Khalibiev sets about seducing Raymond's blind daughter, Gabrielle (Brigitte Helm), in order to rob her and run away with a flapper he meets at a bar. The latter girl balks and warns Raymond, who has meanwhile been searching for a stolen diamond with a $50,000 reward. The diamond turns out to have been swallowed by a shiny-object-loving parrot.
Raymond, who has become hopelessly obsessed with Jeanne, tries to force himself on her and loses his grip on reality. That night Khalibiev sneaks in, strangles him, and steals the money. He frames Andreas by letting the blind Gabrielle grab his coat while he flees the scenes of the crime (he stole the coat from Andreas) and dropping a wallet with Andreas's photo. Andreas is caught delivering money for the communist party in France, which makes him look all the more suspicious. Jeanne thinks to use Khalibiev as an alibi, without realizing he is the murderer.
Cast[edit]
Édith Jéhanne as Jeanne Ney
Uno Henning as Andreas Labov
Fritz Rasp as Khalibiev
Brigitte Helm as Gabrielle
Adolf E. Licho as Raymond Ney
Eugen Jensen as Andre Ney
Hans Jaray as Poitras
Sig Arno as Gaston (as Siegfried Arno)
Hertha von Walther as Margot
Vladimir Sokoloff as Zacharkiewicz
Jack Trevor
Mammey Terja-Basa
Josefine Dora
Heinrich Gotho
Margarete Kupfer (as Küpfer)
Robert Scholz
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Love of Jeanne Ney". Silent Era. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
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Lullaby (Russian: Колыбельная, translit. Kolybelnaya) is a 1937 Soviet documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov. The film was shot to commemorate the 20th anniversary of October Revolution.
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Lullaby (Russian: Колыбельная, translit. Kolybelnaya) is a 1937 Soviet documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov. The film was shot to commemorate the 20th anniversary of October Revolution.
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Men of the Sea
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Men of the Sea

Directed by
Aleksandr Faintsimmer
Written by
Frederick Marryat (novel Midshipman Easy)
Aleksandr Shtein (writer)
Aleksandr Zenovin (writer)
Starring
See below
Music by
V. Sherbachev
Cinematography
Svyatoslav Belyayev
Release dates
2 January 1938
Running time
83 minutes
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) is a 1938 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer.


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P. Gofman as Pilot Bezenchuk
Galina Inyutina as Glafira
Pyotr Kirillov as Dietrich
Vladimir Kryuger as Gunner Zheslov
Boris Livanov as Commissar Vikhoriev
K. Matrossov as Lavretski
V. Safranov as Vaviloo
Leonid Smit as Signal Man Kolessov
Konstantin Sorokin as Orderly
Vladimir Uralsky as Machinist Khoritonich
L. Viven as Commander Rostovtsev
Soundtrack[edit]
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Men of the Sea
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Men of the Sea

Directed by
Aleksandr Faintsimmer
Written by
Frederick Marryat (novel Midshipman Easy)
Aleksandr Shtein (writer)
Aleksandr Zenovin (writer)
Starring
See below
Music by
V. Sherbachev
Cinematography
Svyatoslav Belyayev
Release dates
2 January 1938
Running time
83 minutes
Country
Soviet Union
Language
Russian
Men of the Sea (Baltiytsy) is a 1938 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer.


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3 Soundtrack
4 External links

Plot summary[edit]
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P. Gofman as Pilot Bezenchuk
Galina Inyutina as Glafira
Pyotr Kirillov as Dietrich
Vladimir Kryuger as Gunner Zheslov
Boris Livanov as Commissar Vikhoriev
K. Matrossov as Lavretski
V. Safranov as Vaviloo
Leonid Smit as Signal Man Kolessov
Konstantin Sorokin as Orderly
Vladimir Uralsky as Machinist Khoritonich
L. Viven as Commander Rostovtsev
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The Volga Boatman (film)
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The Volga Boatman
The Volga Boatman.jpg
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by
Cecil B. DeMille
Written by
Konrad Bercovici
Lenore J. Coffee
Starring
William Boyd
Music by
Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography
J. Peverell Marley
Arthur C. Miller
 Fred Westerberg
Edited by
Anne Bauchens
Distributed by
Producers Distributing Corporation
Release dates
May 23, 1926

Running time
120 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
 English intertitles
The Volga Boatman is a 1926 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Cast[edit]
William Boyd - Feodor, A Volga Boatman
Elinor Fair - Vera, A Princess
Robert Edeson - Prince Nikita
Victor Varconi - Prince Dimitri
Julia Faye - Mariusha, A Gypsy
Theodore Kosloff - Stefan, A Blacksmith
Arthur Rankin - Vashi, A Boatman
External links[edit]
The Volga Boatman at the Internet Movie Database
allmovie/synopsis
The Volga Boatman at SilentEra.com
The Volga Boatman DVD issue


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Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille


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The Squaw Man (1914) ·
 Brewster's Millions (1914) ·
 The Master Mind (1914) ·
 The Only Son (1914) ·
 The Man on the Box (1914) ·
 The Call of the North (1914) ·
 The Virginian (1914) ·
 What's His Name (1914) ·
 The Man from Home (1914) ·
 Rose of the Rancho (1914) ·
 The Ghost Breaker (1914) ·
 The Girl of the Golden West (1915) ·
 After Five (1915) ·
 The Warrens of Virginia (1915) ·
 The Unafraid (1915) ·
 The Captive (1915) ·
 The Wild Goose Chase (1915) ·
 The Arab (1915) ·
 Chimmie Fadden (1915) ·
 Kindling (1915) ·
 Carmen (1915) ·
 Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) ·
 The Cheat (1915) ·
 Temptation (1915) ·
 The Golden Chance (1915) ·
 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) ·
 The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) ·
 Maria Rosa (1916) ·
 The Dream Girl (1916) ·
 Joan the Woman (1916) ·
 Lost and Won (1917) ·
 A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) ·
 The Little American (1917) ·
 The Woman God Forgot (1917) ·
 Nan of Music Mountain (1917) ·
 The Devil-Stone (1917) ·
 The Whispering Chorus (1918) ·
 Old Wives for New (1918) ·
 We Can't Have Everything (1918) ·
 Till I Come Back to You (1918) ·
 The Squaw Man (1918) ·
 Don't Change Your Husband (1919) ·
 For Better, for Worse (1919) ·
 Male and Female (1919) ·
 Why Change Your Wife? (1920) ·
 Something to Think About (1920) ·
 Forbidden Fruit (1921) ·
 The Affairs of Anatol (1921) ·
 Fool's Paradise (1921) ·
 Saturday Night (1922) ·
 Manslaughter (1922) ·
 Adam's Rib (1923) ·
 The Ten Commandments (1923) ·
 Triumph (1924) ·
 Feet of Clay (1924) ·
 The Golden Bed (1925) ·
 The Road to Yesterday (1925) ·
 The Volga Boatman (1926) ·
 The King of Kings (1927) ·
 Walking Back (1928) ·
 The Godless Girl (1929)
 

Sound
Dynamite (1929) ·
 Madam Satan (1930) ·
 The Squaw Man (1931) ·
 The Sign of the Cross (1932) ·
 This Day and Age (1933) ·
 Four Frightened People (1934) ·
 Cleopatra (1934) ·
 The Crusades (1935) ·
 The Plainsman (1936) ·
 The Buccaneer (1938) ·
 Union Pacific (1939) ·
 North West Mounted Police (1940) ·
 Reap the Wild Wind (1942) ·
 The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) ·
 Unconquered (1947) ·
 California's Golden Beginning (1948) ·
 Samson and Delilah (1949) ·
 The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) ·
 The Ten Commandments (1956)
 




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The Volga Boatman (film)
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The Volga Boatman
The Volga Boatman.jpg
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by
Cecil B. DeMille
Written by
Konrad Bercovici
Lenore J. Coffee
Starring
William Boyd
Music by
Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography
J. Peverell Marley
Arthur C. Miller
 Fred Westerberg
Edited by
Anne Bauchens
Distributed by
Producers Distributing Corporation
Release dates
May 23, 1926

Running time
120 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
 English intertitles
The Volga Boatman is a 1926 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Cast[edit]
William Boyd - Feodor, A Volga Boatman
Elinor Fair - Vera, A Princess
Robert Edeson - Prince Nikita
Victor Varconi - Prince Dimitri
Julia Faye - Mariusha, A Gypsy
Theodore Kosloff - Stefan, A Blacksmith
Arthur Rankin - Vashi, A Boatman
External links[edit]
The Volga Boatman at the Internet Movie Database
allmovie/synopsis
The Volga Boatman at SilentEra.com
The Volga Boatman DVD issue


[hide]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille


Silent
The Squaw Man (1914) ·
 Brewster's Millions (1914) ·
 The Master Mind (1914) ·
 The Only Son (1914) ·
 The Man on the Box (1914) ·
 The Call of the North (1914) ·
 The Virginian (1914) ·
 What's His Name (1914) ·
 The Man from Home (1914) ·
 Rose of the Rancho (1914) ·
 The Ghost Breaker (1914) ·
 The Girl of the Golden West (1915) ·
 After Five (1915) ·
 The Warrens of Virginia (1915) ·
 The Unafraid (1915) ·
 The Captive (1915) ·
 The Wild Goose Chase (1915) ·
 The Arab (1915) ·
 Chimmie Fadden (1915) ·
 Kindling (1915) ·
 Carmen (1915) ·
 Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) ·
 The Cheat (1915) ·
 Temptation (1915) ·
 The Golden Chance (1915) ·
 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) ·
 The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) ·
 Maria Rosa (1916) ·
 The Dream Girl (1916) ·
 Joan the Woman (1916) ·
 Lost and Won (1917) ·
 A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) ·
 The Little American (1917) ·
 The Woman God Forgot (1917) ·
 Nan of Music Mountain (1917) ·
 The Devil-Stone (1917) ·
 The Whispering Chorus (1918) ·
 Old Wives for New (1918) ·
 We Can't Have Everything (1918) ·
 Till I Come Back to You (1918) ·
 The Squaw Man (1918) ·
 Don't Change Your Husband (1919) ·
 For Better, for Worse (1919) ·
 Male and Female (1919) ·
 Why Change Your Wife? (1920) ·
 Something to Think About (1920) ·
 Forbidden Fruit (1921) ·
 The Affairs of Anatol (1921) ·
 Fool's Paradise (1921) ·
 Saturday Night (1922) ·
 Manslaughter (1922) ·
 Adam's Rib (1923) ·
 The Ten Commandments (1923) ·
 Triumph (1924) ·
 Feet of Clay (1924) ·
 The Golden Bed (1925) ·
 The Road to Yesterday (1925) ·
 The Volga Boatman (1926) ·
 The King of Kings (1927) ·
 Walking Back (1928) ·
 The Godless Girl (1929)
 

Sound
Dynamite (1929) ·
 Madam Satan (1930) ·
 The Squaw Man (1931) ·
 The Sign of the Cross (1932) ·
 This Day and Age (1933) ·
 Four Frightened People (1934) ·
 Cleopatra (1934) ·
 The Crusades (1935) ·
 The Plainsman (1936) ·
 The Buccaneer (1938) ·
 Union Pacific (1939) ·
 North West Mounted Police (1940) ·
 Reap the Wild Wind (1942) ·
 The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) ·
 Unconquered (1947) ·
 California's Golden Beginning (1948) ·
 Samson and Delilah (1949) ·
 The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) ·
 The Ten Commandments (1956)
 




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Attack on Baku
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Attack on Baku

Directed by
Fritz Kirchhoff
Produced by
Hans Weidemann
Written by
Hans Wolfgang Hillers
 Hans Weidemann
Starring
Willy Fritsch
René Deltgen
Fritz Kampers
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Music by
Alois Melichar
Cinematography
Robert Baberske
Edited by
Erich Kobler
Production
 company
UFA

Distributed by
UFA
Release dates
25 August 1942
Running time
91 minutes
Country
Germany
Language
German
Attack on Baku (German: Anschlag auf Baku) is a 1942 German thriller film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen and Fritz Kampers. The film was intended as anti-British propaganda during the Second World War. It is noted for its set designs by Otto Hunte, who showed a fascination for modern technology in his depiction of the oil town.[1] The film was shot on location in German-allied Romania, and at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 References
4 Bibliography
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
Azerbaijan, 1919. the British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates.
Cast[edit]
Willy Fritsch as Hans Romberg
René Deltgen as Captain Percy Forbes, British Chief Agent
Fritz Kampers as Sergeant Mathias Ertl
Hans Zesch-Ballot as Police Minister Barakoff
Paul Bildt as Camps, U.S. oil magnate in Baku
Lotte Koch as Sylvia, his daughter
Erich Ponto as Jensen, Danish oil magnate
Aribert Wascher as Mamulian, Armenian oil magnate
Walter Janssen as Hanson, Swedish oil magnate
Joachim Brennecke as Ali Baba
Josef Kamper as Zolak
Wilhelm König as Thatul
Heinrich Marlow as Lord Seymour, British officer
Hellmut Helsig as Richard Twinning, British Agent
Alexander Enge as Steffens, British Agent
Walter Holetzko as Richards, British Agent
Peter Elsholtz as British Lieutenant
Nikolai Kolin as Russian waiter
Aruth Vartan as GPU agent
Willy Maertens as Jensen's lawyer
Boris Alekin as Turkish officer
Angelo Ferrari as Turkish officer
Erik Radolf as Forbes' servant
Herbert Gernot as Colonel Ahmed Bey
Fred Goebel as British agent
Reginald Pasch as British agent
Arthur Reinhardt as British agent
Nico Turoff as British agent
Kurt Iller as British agent
Karl Jüstel as British agent
Günther Ballier as Jensen's secretary
Herbert Scholz as Assassin
Werner Völger as Assassin
Peter Busse as Oil Tycoon
Julius E. Herrmann as Oil Tycoon
Erich Walter as Gregor
Lotte Hermann as Dancer
Lula Sachnowsky as Dancer
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Hake p. p.53
Bibliography[edit]
Hake, Sabrine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
Eltin, Richard A. Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. University of Chicago Press, 2002
External links[edit]
Attack on Baku at the Internet Movie Database
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Attack on Baku
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Attack on Baku

Directed by
Fritz Kirchhoff
Produced by
Hans Weidemann
Written by
Hans Wolfgang Hillers
 Hans Weidemann
Starring
Willy Fritsch
René Deltgen
Fritz Kampers
Hans Zesch-Ballot
Music by
Alois Melichar
Cinematography
Robert Baberske
Edited by
Erich Kobler
Production
 company
UFA

Distributed by
UFA
Release dates
25 August 1942
Running time
91 minutes
Country
Germany
Language
German
Attack on Baku (German: Anschlag auf Baku) is a 1942 German thriller film directed by Fritz Kirchhoff and starring Willy Fritsch, René Deltgen and Fritz Kampers. The film was intended as anti-British propaganda during the Second World War. It is noted for its set designs by Otto Hunte, who showed a fascination for modern technology in his depiction of the oil town.[1] The film was shot on location in German-allied Romania, and at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin.


Contents  [hide]
1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 References
4 Bibliography
5 External links

Synopsis[edit]
Azerbaijan, 1919. the British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans Romberg, a German who is working as a security officer, battles with the British chief agent Captain Forbes and his associates.
Cast[edit]
Willy Fritsch as Hans Romberg
René Deltgen as Captain Percy Forbes, British Chief Agent
Fritz Kampers as Sergeant Mathias Ertl
Hans Zesch-Ballot as Police Minister Barakoff
Paul Bildt as Camps, U.S. oil magnate in Baku
Lotte Koch as Sylvia, his daughter
Erich Ponto as Jensen, Danish oil magnate
Aribert Wascher as Mamulian, Armenian oil magnate
Walter Janssen as Hanson, Swedish oil magnate
Joachim Brennecke as Ali Baba
Josef Kamper as Zolak
Wilhelm König as Thatul
Heinrich Marlow as Lord Seymour, British officer
Hellmut Helsig as Richard Twinning, British Agent
Alexander Enge as Steffens, British Agent
Walter Holetzko as Richards, British Agent
Peter Elsholtz as British Lieutenant
Nikolai Kolin as Russian waiter
Aruth Vartan as GPU agent
Willy Maertens as Jensen's lawyer
Boris Alekin as Turkish officer
Angelo Ferrari as Turkish officer
Erik Radolf as Forbes' servant
Herbert Gernot as Colonel Ahmed Bey
Fred Goebel as British agent
Reginald Pasch as British agent
Arthur Reinhardt as British agent
Nico Turoff as British agent
Kurt Iller as British agent
Karl Jüstel as British agent
Günther Ballier as Jensen's secretary
Herbert Scholz as Assassin
Werner Völger as Assassin
Peter Busse as Oil Tycoon
Julius E. Herrmann as Oil Tycoon
Erich Walter as Gregor
Lotte Hermann as Dancer
Lula Sachnowsky as Dancer
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Hake p. p.53
Bibliography[edit]
Hake, Sabrine. Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. University of Texas Press, 2001.
Eltin, Richard A. Art, Culture, and Media Under the Third Reich. University of Chicago Press, 2002
External links[edit]
Attack on Baku at the Internet Movie Database
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Admiral (film)
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Admiral
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Directed by
Andrei Kravchuk
Produced by
Janik Faysiev
Konstantin Ernst
Written by
Zoya Kudrya
Vladimir Valutsky
Starring
Konstantin Khabensky
Elizaveta Boyarskaya
Sergey Bezrukov
Anna Kovalchuk
Release dates
October 9, 2008
Running time
123 minutes
Country
Russia
Language
Russian
French
Budget
$20 million
Box office
$38,135,878
Admiral (Russian: Адмиралъ) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poet Anna Timiryova.
According to director Andrei Kravchuk,

"[The film is] about a man who tries to create history, to take an active part in history, as he gets caught in the turmoil. However, he keeps on struggling, he preserves his honour and his dignity, and he continues to love."[1]


Contents  [hide]
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2 Release
3 Themes
4 Cast
5 Soundtrack
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
The film opens during the production of War and Peace at Mosfilm Studios in 1964. An elderly Russian noblewoman is set to appear as a film extra until her past comes to light. Although the film's political commissar demands her dismissal since she is a "wife of an enemy of the revolution", director Sergei Bondarchuk is adamant that he needs faces like hers for the production. As the commissar realises it difficult by only using the file he has, he immediately recognises the elderly woman behind him as the woman he is searching for, while the elderly woman is looking at her own 1910s photo.
The film flashes back to the Baltic Sea in 1914. Captain Alexander Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky) is laying naval mines from his ship in German territorial waters when he runs across SMS Friedrich Carl, an armoured cruiser of the German Imperial Navy. As chaos reigns on his ship, Kolchak sights in one of the guns and succeeds in seriously damaging the bridge of the German vessel. This buys him only a brief respite, however.
Realising that the enemy ship is blocking his line of escape, Kolchak informs his men that the only way to return to safety is to lure the Germans onto one of his mines. As the ship steams into the mines they have just laid, Kolchak leads his men in Russian Orthodox prayers for God's protection. Although they barely avoid hitting their own mines, the German ship is not so lucky and sinks with almost all hands.
Later, at their naval base in the Grand Duchy of Finland, now promoted to Rear Admiral, Kolchak is introduced to Anna Timireva (Elizaveta Boyarskaya), the wife of his subordinate officer and close friend Captain Sergei Timirev. The strong attraction between them immediately becomes apparent. Although Sergei reminds his wife that they took vows before God, Anna is unmoved and wants nothing more than to be with the Admiral.
Although terrified of losing him, Sofia Kolchak (Anna Kovalchuk) offers to leave for Petrograd and let her husband be with Anna if he so desires. The Admiral, however, firmly tells her, "You are my wife and I am your husband. That is how it always shall be."
His feelings for Anna continue to grow, however. When she approaches him to deliver a love letter, Kolchak informs her that they cannot ever meet again. When Anna demands to know why, the Admiral responds, "Because I love you."
Later, he is informed that the Tsar (Nikolai Burlyayev) has promoted him to Vice Admiral in command of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol. After receiving a last minute letter from Kolchak, Anna rushes to the train station to see off her beloved. She is too late, however, and experiences only an uncomfortable look from Sofia.
After the February Revolution in 1917, officers are disarmed and summarily executed at the Kronstadt naval base. Sergei barely escapes the island with Anna. Meanwhile, a group of enlisted men, now with their cockades on their sailor caps changed from a Tsarist insignia to a red revolutionary cockade, arrive aboard Kolchak's flotilla in Sevastopol and demand that all officers surrender their arms. To avoid bloodshed, Kolchak orders his subordinates to obey. However, he throws his own sword into the harbour rather than hand it over, but the sailors didn't complain about it.
Later, Kolchak is summoned to Petrograd by Alexander Kerensky (Viktor Verzhbitsky), who offers to appoint him Minister of Defence. Kolchak, however, sharply criticises Kerensky for promoting indiscipline in both the Russian Army and Navy. He states that the only way he will accept is if he is given a free hand to restore old practices. Kerensky, enraged by Kolchak's "counterrevolutionary sympathies," exiles him to the United States, excusing that "the allies needs more experts".
After the October Revolution, Anna and Sergei Timiriov are travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railroad when she learns that Kolchak has returned and is leading a detachment of the anti-communist White Army at Omsk. Sergei, who has become a Red Commissar, is shocked when she returns to their carriage and announces that she is leaving him. After commenting about what a year of Revolution it has been, Sergei helps Anna to pack her things.
After hearing Kolchak's speeches about defeating the Bolsheviks and "restoring Russia," Anna is deeply moved and goes to work as a nurse among the wounded of the Russian Civil War. Meanwhile, Kolchak is informed that the Red Army is advancing on Omsk, assisted by sympathizers behind White lines. Although his advisors all suggest defending Omsk to the last, Kolchak decrees that they will instead evacuate Omsk and seize Irkutsk as the new capital of anti-communist Russia.
During the evacuation of Omsk, Anna is recognised by a White officer who informs Kolchak. Deeply moved, the Admiral goes to her and announces that, although he made the mistake of leaving her once, he will never do so again. As the train steams toward Irkutsk, Kolchak informs Anna that he has written to his wife Sofia, who now lives in Paris, and formally asked for a divorce. Although he asks Anna to marry him, she insists that there is no need of marriage and that what matters is that they are together now. Eventually, she relents and they are seen attending the Divine Liturgy together.
Meanwhile, Irkutsk is under the nominal control of the French General Maurice Janin and the Czechoslovak Legions. With their defences disintegrating, the Red Army offers them only one way out alive. As a result, General Janin agrees to hand over Admiral Kolchak.
As a massive land force of White soldiers rides and marches toward Irkutsk, Kolchak is placed under arrest by the Czechs and handed over to the Reds. Despite Kolchak's attempts to shield her, Anna insists that, as his wife, she must be arrested, too.
Kolchak is given a cursory trial by the Irkutsk soviet and executed by a firing squad along the banks of the frozen Angara River. His last words are, "Send word to my wife in Paris that I bless our son."
Kolchak's body is then dumped into a hole drilled into the ice by the local Orthodox clergy for Great Blessing of Waters on Epiphany. It is revealed that Anna survived more than 30 years in the Gulag and was only released during the Khrushchev thaw.
Meanwhile, in 1964, Anna Timiorova witnesses a rehearsal for one of the ballroom scenes from War and Peace, as she accidentally bumps into an actor playing as a waiter, breaking a glass of wine, which reminds her of the first time she meets Kolchak, then the film shifts to her imagination as she dreams of the formal dance she was never able to share with her beloved. The fates of the film's main characters are revealed in captions.
Release[edit]
The first screening of the film took place on October 9, 2008.[2]
Themes[edit]
Actress Elizaveta Boyarskaya said of her character,

"She was a woman of such force, of such will, with such magnanimity... I feel an amazing resemblance to her... When I read script, I was even a bit scared: because she has the same vision of history as me. All that can arrive at is me. And when I played Anna, I did not play, I was her. It is my epoch, my attitude regarding love."
After being asked about the film, Doctor Zhivago, she stated,

"The only thing that these two films share consists in the love which the Russian women can carry; it is a topic approached by many novels. They love up to the last drop of blood, till the most dreadful end, to the death; they are capable of leaving family and children for the love of the man which they have chosen.
Cast[edit]

Player
Role
Konstantin Khabensky Admiral Alexander Kolchak
Sergei Bezrukov General Vladimir Kappel
Elizaveta Boyarskaya Anna Timiryova
Anna Kovalchuk Sofia Kolchak
Yegor Beroyev Mikhail Smirnov
Richard Bohringer General Maurice Janin
Viktor Verzhbitsky Alexander Kerensky
Nikolai Burlyayev Nicholas II of Russia
Fyodor Bondarchuk Director Sergei Bondarchuk
Soundtrack[edit]
The main original song for the film is called "Anna". It is performed by Russian singer Victoria Dayneko. The music for the song was composed by Igor Matvienko and the poem itself was written by Anna Timireva in memory of Admiral.
The other song "Vopreki" ("Despite") was written by Konstantin Meladze. This song is performed by Russian star Valery Meladze.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Video on YouTube
2.Jump up ^ В Москве состоялся предпремьерный показ исторического фильма «Адмиралъ»
External links[edit]
Official website
Admiral at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Admiral (film)
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Admiral
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Directed by
Andrei Kravchuk
Produced by
Janik Faysiev
Konstantin Ernst
Written by
Zoya Kudrya
Vladimir Valutsky
Starring
Konstantin Khabensky
Elizaveta Boyarskaya
Sergey Bezrukov
Anna Kovalchuk
Release dates
October 9, 2008
Running time
123 minutes
Country
Russia
Language
Russian
French
Budget
$20 million
Box office
$38,135,878
Admiral (Russian: Адмиралъ) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poet Anna Timiryova.
According to director Andrei Kravchuk,

"[The film is] about a man who tries to create history, to take an active part in history, as he gets caught in the turmoil. However, he keeps on struggling, he preserves his honour and his dignity, and he continues to love."[1]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Release
3 Themes
4 Cast
5 Soundtrack
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
The film opens during the production of War and Peace at Mosfilm Studios in 1964. An elderly Russian noblewoman is set to appear as a film extra until her past comes to light. Although the film's political commissar demands her dismissal since she is a "wife of an enemy of the revolution", director Sergei Bondarchuk is adamant that he needs faces like hers for the production. As the commissar realises it difficult by only using the file he has, he immediately recognises the elderly woman behind him as the woman he is searching for, while the elderly woman is looking at her own 1910s photo.
The film flashes back to the Baltic Sea in 1914. Captain Alexander Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky) is laying naval mines from his ship in German territorial waters when he runs across SMS Friedrich Carl, an armoured cruiser of the German Imperial Navy. As chaos reigns on his ship, Kolchak sights in one of the guns and succeeds in seriously damaging the bridge of the German vessel. This buys him only a brief respite, however.
Realising that the enemy ship is blocking his line of escape, Kolchak informs his men that the only way to return to safety is to lure the Germans onto one of his mines. As the ship steams into the mines they have just laid, Kolchak leads his men in Russian Orthodox prayers for God's protection. Although they barely avoid hitting their own mines, the German ship is not so lucky and sinks with almost all hands.
Later, at their naval base in the Grand Duchy of Finland, now promoted to Rear Admiral, Kolchak is introduced to Anna Timireva (Elizaveta Boyarskaya), the wife of his subordinate officer and close friend Captain Sergei Timirev. The strong attraction between them immediately becomes apparent. Although Sergei reminds his wife that they took vows before God, Anna is unmoved and wants nothing more than to be with the Admiral.
Although terrified of losing him, Sofia Kolchak (Anna Kovalchuk) offers to leave for Petrograd and let her husband be with Anna if he so desires. The Admiral, however, firmly tells her, "You are my wife and I am your husband. That is how it always shall be."
His feelings for Anna continue to grow, however. When she approaches him to deliver a love letter, Kolchak informs her that they cannot ever meet again. When Anna demands to know why, the Admiral responds, "Because I love you."
Later, he is informed that the Tsar (Nikolai Burlyayev) has promoted him to Vice Admiral in command of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol. After receiving a last minute letter from Kolchak, Anna rushes to the train station to see off her beloved. She is too late, however, and experiences only an uncomfortable look from Sofia.
After the February Revolution in 1917, officers are disarmed and summarily executed at the Kronstadt naval base. Sergei barely escapes the island with Anna. Meanwhile, a group of enlisted men, now with their cockades on their sailor caps changed from a Tsarist insignia to a red revolutionary cockade, arrive aboard Kolchak's flotilla in Sevastopol and demand that all officers surrender their arms. To avoid bloodshed, Kolchak orders his subordinates to obey. However, he throws his own sword into the harbour rather than hand it over, but the sailors didn't complain about it.
Later, Kolchak is summoned to Petrograd by Alexander Kerensky (Viktor Verzhbitsky), who offers to appoint him Minister of Defence. Kolchak, however, sharply criticises Kerensky for promoting indiscipline in both the Russian Army and Navy. He states that the only way he will accept is if he is given a free hand to restore old practices. Kerensky, enraged by Kolchak's "counterrevolutionary sympathies," exiles him to the United States, excusing that "the allies needs more experts".
After the October Revolution, Anna and Sergei Timiriov are travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railroad when she learns that Kolchak has returned and is leading a detachment of the anti-communist White Army at Omsk. Sergei, who has become a Red Commissar, is shocked when she returns to their carriage and announces that she is leaving him. After commenting about what a year of Revolution it has been, Sergei helps Anna to pack her things.
After hearing Kolchak's speeches about defeating the Bolsheviks and "restoring Russia," Anna is deeply moved and goes to work as a nurse among the wounded of the Russian Civil War. Meanwhile, Kolchak is informed that the Red Army is advancing on Omsk, assisted by sympathizers behind White lines. Although his advisors all suggest defending Omsk to the last, Kolchak decrees that they will instead evacuate Omsk and seize Irkutsk as the new capital of anti-communist Russia.
During the evacuation of Omsk, Anna is recognised by a White officer who informs Kolchak. Deeply moved, the Admiral goes to her and announces that, although he made the mistake of leaving her once, he will never do so again. As the train steams toward Irkutsk, Kolchak informs Anna that he has written to his wife Sofia, who now lives in Paris, and formally asked for a divorce. Although he asks Anna to marry him, she insists that there is no need of marriage and that what matters is that they are together now. Eventually, she relents and they are seen attending the Divine Liturgy together.
Meanwhile, Irkutsk is under the nominal control of the French General Maurice Janin and the Czechoslovak Legions. With their defences disintegrating, the Red Army offers them only one way out alive. As a result, General Janin agrees to hand over Admiral Kolchak.
As a massive land force of White soldiers rides and marches toward Irkutsk, Kolchak is placed under arrest by the Czechs and handed over to the Reds. Despite Kolchak's attempts to shield her, Anna insists that, as his wife, she must be arrested, too.
Kolchak is given a cursory trial by the Irkutsk soviet and executed by a firing squad along the banks of the frozen Angara River. His last words are, "Send word to my wife in Paris that I bless our son."
Kolchak's body is then dumped into a hole drilled into the ice by the local Orthodox clergy for Great Blessing of Waters on Epiphany. It is revealed that Anna survived more than 30 years in the Gulag and was only released during the Khrushchev thaw.
Meanwhile, in 1964, Anna Timiorova witnesses a rehearsal for one of the ballroom scenes from War and Peace, as she accidentally bumps into an actor playing as a waiter, breaking a glass of wine, which reminds her of the first time she meets Kolchak, then the film shifts to her imagination as she dreams of the formal dance she was never able to share with her beloved. The fates of the film's main characters are revealed in captions.
Release[edit]
The first screening of the film took place on October 9, 2008.[2]
Themes[edit]
Actress Elizaveta Boyarskaya said of her character,

"She was a woman of such force, of such will, with such magnanimity... I feel an amazing resemblance to her... When I read script, I was even a bit scared: because she has the same vision of history as me. All that can arrive at is me. And when I played Anna, I did not play, I was her. It is my epoch, my attitude regarding love."
After being asked about the film, Doctor Zhivago, she stated,

"The only thing that these two films share consists in the love which the Russian women can carry; it is a topic approached by many novels. They love up to the last drop of blood, till the most dreadful end, to the death; they are capable of leaving family and children for the love of the man which they have chosen.
Cast[edit]

Player
Role
Konstantin Khabensky Admiral Alexander Kolchak
Sergei Bezrukov General Vladimir Kappel
Elizaveta Boyarskaya Anna Timiryova
Anna Kovalchuk Sofia Kolchak
Yegor Beroyev Mikhail Smirnov
Richard Bohringer General Maurice Janin
Viktor Verzhbitsky Alexander Kerensky
Nikolai Burlyayev Nicholas II of Russia
Fyodor Bondarchuk Director Sergei Bondarchuk
Soundtrack[edit]
The main original song for the film is called "Anna". It is performed by Russian singer Victoria Dayneko. The music for the song was composed by Igor Matvienko and the poem itself was written by Anna Timireva in memory of Admiral.
The other song "Vopreki" ("Despite") was written by Konstantin Meladze. This song is performed by Russian star Valery Meladze.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Video on YouTube
2.Jump up ^ В Москве состоялся предпремьерный показ исторического фильма «Адмиралъ»
External links[edit]
Official website
Admiral at the Internet Movie Database
 


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Biographical films about military leaders
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Coup de Grâce (1976 film)
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Coup de Grâce
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Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
Produced by
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Anatole Dauman
Screenplay by
Jutta Brückner
Margarethe von Trotta
Geneviève Dormann
Based on
Coup de Grâce
 by Marguerite Yourcenar
Starring
Margarethe von Trotta
Matthias Habich
Rüdiger Kirschstein
Music by
Stanley Myers
Cinematography
Igor Luther
Edited by
Jane Sperr
Distributed by
Cinema 5 Distributing
Release dates
October 22, 1976 (West Germany)

Running time
97 minutes
Country
West Germany
 France
Language
German
French
Coup de Grâce (German: Der Fangschuß, French: Le Coup de grâce) is a 1976 West German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It was adapted from the novel by the same name by the French author Marguerite Yourcenar. The title comes from the French expression, meaning "finishing blow".
Plot[edit]
In 1919 Latvia, a detachment of German Freikorps soldiers is stationed in a chateau in the town of Kratovice to fight Bolshevik guerrillas. The chateau is the home of the soldier Konrad de Reval and his sister Sophie de Reval. Sophie is attracted to another soldier, a close friend of Konrad's named Erich von Lhomond. However, the reticent Erich rebuffs her advances. In retaliation, Sophie has trysts with other members of the military troop. Erich is noticeably angered by her behavior. Eventually, Sophie learns that Erich and Konrad are lovers. After this discovery, she joins the leftist guerrillas, whom she had been in contact with previously. Erich's soldiers capture her and her comrades. Sophie asks that Erich execute her himself, and he obliges. In a striking single tracking shot, we see Erich casually shoot Sophie in the head before joining in a photo with the other soldiers. As all board a train, the camera pans back to the corpses of the executed.
Adaptation[edit]
The events of the novel, Marguerite Yourcenar's Coup de Grâce from 1939, are seen from the point of view of the soldier Erich von Lhomond. However, the main character of the film is Sophie de Reval, played by Margarethe von Trotta, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The filmmakers felt that an audience of 1976 would more readily identify with the independence and resolve exhibited by Sophie than with Erich's repressed conservatism.[citation needed]
In addition, the Russian Civil War is only a vague backdrop in the novel, but the film depicts battlefield engagements with a brutal reality that makes the war a significant presence.
External links[edit]
Criterion Collection essay by Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis
Coup de Grâce at Rotten Tomatoes
Coup de Grâce at AllMovie
Coup de Grâce at the Internet Movie Database


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Coup de Grâce (1976 film)
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Coup de Grâce
Coup de Grace DVD.jpg
Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
Produced by
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Anatole Dauman
Screenplay by
Jutta Brückner
Margarethe von Trotta
Geneviève Dormann
Based on
Coup de Grâce
 by Marguerite Yourcenar
Starring
Margarethe von Trotta
Matthias Habich
Rüdiger Kirschstein
Music by
Stanley Myers
Cinematography
Igor Luther
Edited by
Jane Sperr
Distributed by
Cinema 5 Distributing
Release dates
October 22, 1976 (West Germany)

Running time
97 minutes
Country
West Germany
 France
Language
German
French
Coup de Grâce (German: Der Fangschuß, French: Le Coup de grâce) is a 1976 West German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It was adapted from the novel by the same name by the French author Marguerite Yourcenar. The title comes from the French expression, meaning "finishing blow".
Plot[edit]
In 1919 Latvia, a detachment of German Freikorps soldiers is stationed in a chateau in the town of Kratovice to fight Bolshevik guerrillas. The chateau is the home of the soldier Konrad de Reval and his sister Sophie de Reval. Sophie is attracted to another soldier, a close friend of Konrad's named Erich von Lhomond. However, the reticent Erich rebuffs her advances. In retaliation, Sophie has trysts with other members of the military troop. Erich is noticeably angered by her behavior. Eventually, Sophie learns that Erich and Konrad are lovers. After this discovery, she joins the leftist guerrillas, whom she had been in contact with previously. Erich's soldiers capture her and her comrades. Sophie asks that Erich execute her himself, and he obliges. In a striking single tracking shot, we see Erich casually shoot Sophie in the head before joining in a photo with the other soldiers. As all board a train, the camera pans back to the corpses of the executed.
Adaptation[edit]
The events of the novel, Marguerite Yourcenar's Coup de Grâce from 1939, are seen from the point of view of the soldier Erich von Lhomond. However, the main character of the film is Sophie de Reval, played by Margarethe von Trotta, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The filmmakers felt that an audience of 1976 would more readily identify with the independence and resolve exhibited by Sophie than with Erich's repressed conservatism.[citation needed]
In addition, the Russian Civil War is only a vague backdrop in the novel, but the film depicts battlefield engagements with a brutal reality that makes the war a significant presence.
External links[edit]
Criterion Collection essay by Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis
Coup de Grâce at Rotten Tomatoes
Coup de Grâce at AllMovie
Coup de Grâce at the Internet Movie Database


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 Morals of Ruth Halbfass ·
 A Free Woman ·
 Übernachtung in Tirol ·
 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ·
 Coup de Grâce ·
 Germany in Autumn ·
 The Tin Drum ·
 The Circle of Deceit ·
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 Death of a Salesman ·
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 Calm at Sea ·
 Diplomacy
 

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 The Candidate ·
 The Michael Nyman Songbook ·
 Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine ·
 Billy Wilder Speaks
 

 


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List of book-based war films (1898–1926 wars)
A
Admiral (film)
Anastasia (1997 film)
Attack on Baku
C
Coup de Grâce (1976 film)
D
Doctor Zhivago (film)
G
The Great Dawn

H
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
I
I Killed Rasputin
K
Knight Without Armour
L
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Lullaby (1937 film)
M
Men of the Sea
N
Nicholas and Alexandra

O
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
R
Reds (film)
The Romanovs: An Imperial Family
T
Tsar to Lenin
V
The Volga Boatman (film)




Categories: Films about revolutions
Works about the Russian Revolution
Films set in the 1910s
Films set in Russia


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Category:Russian Revolution films
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►  Soviet revolutionary propaganda films‎ (11 P)



►  Films about Joseph Stalin‎ (4 P)



Pages in category "Russian Revolution films"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).


*
List of book-based war films (1898–1926 wars)
A
Admiral (film)
Anastasia (1997 film)
Attack on Baku
C
Coup de Grâce (1976 film)
D
Doctor Zhivago (film)
G
The Great Dawn

H
Hangmen, Women and Soldiers
I
I Killed Rasputin
K
Knight Without Armour
L
The Love of Jeanne Ney
Lullaby (1937 film)
M
Men of the Sea
N
Nicholas and Alexandra

O
October: Ten Days That Shook the World
R
Reds (film)
The Romanovs: An Imperial Family
T
Tsar to Lenin
V
The Volga Boatman (film)




Categories: Films about revolutions
Works about the Russian Revolution
Films set in the 1910s
Films set in Russia


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