- Girl No. 217
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Girl No. 217 Directed by Mikhail Romm Written by Mikhail Romm
Yevgeny GabrilovichStarring Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina Music by Aram Khachaturian Cinematography Boris Volchek
Era SavelyevaStudio Mosfilm Release date(s) 9 April 1945 Country Soviet Union Language Russian Girl No. 217 (Russian: Человек № 217, translit. Chelovek No. 217) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Romm. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
An anti-Nazi film, it depicted a Russian girl enslaved to an inhuman German family.[2] She is even robbed of her name and forced to answer to "No. 217".[3] Subplots depict abuse directed at other POWs.[3] This reflected the use by Nazis of OST-Arbeiter as slave labor, including as family servants.
Cast
- Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina - Tanya Krylova - Nr. 217
- Vladimir Balashov
- Tatyana Barysheva
- Gregori Greif - Kurt Kahger
- Anastasiya Lissianskaya - Klava
- Grigory Mikhaylov - Prisoner Nr. 225
- Lyudmila Sukharevskaya - Lotta
- Peter Suthanov - Rudolph Peschke
- Vasili Zajchikov - Scientist
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Girl No. 217". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4366/year/1946.html. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
- ^ Anthony Rhodes, Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II, p219 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York
- ^ a b "Girl No. 217"
External links
Categories:- 1945 films
- Soviet films
- Russian-language films
- 1940s drama films
- Black-and-white films
- Films directed by Mikhail Romm
- Compositions by Aram Khachaturian
- Soviet film stubs
- 1940s drama film stubs
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