SYNOPSIS

DURATION 130 mins

YEAR 1965

COUNTRY USSR

LANGUAGE Russian

A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He served in the Red Army in 1918-21 as an Inspector of the Special Forces for Food Supplies. He was in charge of confiscations of bread and food from the wealthier farmers (kulaks) in Central Russia. Romm later was avoiding any discussions regarding this painful memories, though he used his experience in the films about Lenin.

PERSONNEL

Cinematographer German Lavrov

Editor Valentina Kulagina, Mikhail Romm

Sound Designer Sergei Minervin, Boris Vengerovsky, Alemdar Karamanov