... and tomorrow was war
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | ... and tomorrow was war |
| Original title | Завтра была война (Sawtra Byla Woina) |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yuri Kara |
| script | Boris Wassiljew scenario |
| production | Gorki film |
| music | Antonio Vivaldi |
| camera | Vadim Semenowych |
| cut | Alla Mjakotina |
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... And Tomorrow Was War is a 1987 Soviet feature film by Juri Kara .
action
The Soviet Union in 1940: A school in the province receives a new headmaster in Nikolai Grigoryevich Romachin. He redistributed the class assignment of the individual floors, had mirrors hung up in the girls' toilets and at the end of the school day gathered the students in front of the school building to sing revolutionary songs with them to the accordion . The class teacher at 9b, Valentina Andronovna, sees all this with suspicion and rejection, as she is a strict advocate of the ideals of communism and the maxims of the party. The student of 9b and Komsomol secretary Iskra Polyakova, among other things, adheres strictly to the ideals under the influence of her mother and is horrified, for example, when her classmate and friend Wika reads verses by the poet Sergei Yesenin at a birthday party . He is considered a Kulak poet who only addresses alcohol consumption and debauchery. Wika gives her the book so that she can form her own picture, since she has never read Jessenin.
Under the influence of the new director and Wika's father, the well-respected aircraft manufacturer Ljubblezki, Iskra slowly begins to question things. This meets with the mother's displeasure, which Iskra is increasingly resisting, and the class teacher. The class teacher denounces Ljuberzki as a liberal who is arrested. Soon, the school children saw Ljuberzki as an enemy of the people, and rumors were making the rounds. Wika, in turn, should now publicly renounce her father, but refuses. Iskra, on the other hand, is unwilling to initiate an investigation as Komsomol secretary to decide whether Wika can continue to be a Komsomol. When Valentina Andronovna pressures her, Iskra collapses and is carried out of the room by Romachin.
Wika, Iskra and their schoolmates go on a trip together, on which Georgi Landis and Wika confess their love to each other. The next day, Wika is supposed to testify before the committee of inquiry, but does not appear. Valentina Andronovna describes her as a coward in front of the class; classmate Sina is supposed to fetch her from home. Sina, however, appears disturbed after a while and reports that Wika has committed suicide. The policeman investigating the suicide attributes the act to psychological problems.
Iskra organizes Wika's funeral with her classmates. School principal Romachin gives a speech against indifference and rigid fanaticism at Wika's grave, Iskra reads out the last letter Wika wrote to her before she committed suicide. In it, Wika describes, among other things, that she should break away from her father, but could not. While Iskra puts her mother in her place, whom she wants to chastise with a belt for her speech at the grave, Romachin's speech results in her expulsion from the party. One day Ljuberzki returns. Georgi Landis collapses and Iskra is also stunned. The pupils went to Ljubblezki to tell him about the last few days in Wika's life and also about the funeral. Sina blames all the bad luck this year on the fact that it was a leap year . The next year, 1941, will certainly be better - soldiers march past outside, a little later there is war .
After the war, the narrator reports that numerous students of the 9b died in the war, including Georgi Landis and Stameskin as well as Iskra, who was hanged alongside her mother as an assistant to the underground movement.
production
… And Tomorrow Was War is based on the novel Tomorrow Was War by Boris Wassiljew, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The school building in the film was found in school No. 175 in Moscow, in front of whose portal the recordings of the school director making music with the students after school were made.
The film premiered in the Soviet Union in November 1987 and was released in GDR cinemas on November 4, 1988, and in West Germany on May 25, 1989. The film first ran on May 9, 1990 on DFF 1 on German television. Icestorm released … and tomorrow was Krieg in October 2005 as part of the Russian Classics series on DVD.
The film music for ... and there was war tomorrow includes classical compositions by Antonio Vivaldi as well as original music from the 1930s. The war that is imminent at the end of the film is hinted at with the song The Holy War . The film is dedicated to Sergei Gerasimov . It was the screen debut of Natalja Negoda , who plays the schoolgirl Sina in the film. Her film mother Jelena Moltschenko is actually the same age as Negoda. The parts of the film in which the students are outside the immediate constraints of the party, including scenes in Ljubblezki's apartment and the student excursion the day before Wika's suicide, were shot in color, the rest in black and white.
Ban in the GDR
At the same time as the ban on the Soviet magazine Sputnik , the deputy minister for culture of the GDR Horst Pehnert instructed on November 18, 1988 that the film ... and tomorrow was war as well as four other films that had been released for three weeks as part of the "Festival of Soviet Films “Ran in the cinemas, should be canceled immediately.
synchronization
The DEFA dubbing dialogue was written by Heinz Nitzsche , and Michael Englberger directed .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Headmaster | Sergei Nikonenko | Klaus Piontek |
| Valendra | Vera Alentova | Irmelin Krause |
| Ljuberzki | Vladimir Samansky | Otto Mellies |
| Iskra's mother | Nina Ruslanova | Katharina Lind |
| Iskra | Irina Cherichenko | Silvia Missbach |
| Wika | Yulia Tarchowa | Juana-Maria von Jascheroff |
| Sina | Natalia Negoda | Rachel Ohm |
| Artyom | Sergei Stolyarov | Holm gardener |
| Landis | Rodion Ovchinnikov | Michael Pan |
| Stameskin | Gennady Frolov | Gunnar Helm |
| Ostaptchuk | Vladislav Demchenko | Asad Black |
criticism
For the film service was … and tomorrow war was a “quietly staged drama that had disappeared for many years on the shelves of Soviet censors. The plea for inner and outer freedom of the human being is in places staged exactly along the melodramatic pathos of typical Soviet productions of those years, but in addition to the explicitly political statement, human nuances also come into play. "
Cinema counted the film as "one of the key works of the early Glasnost period" and called it a "moving drama about true heroes".
Awards (selection)
… And tomorrow was war was awarded the Golden Ear of Ear in 1987 at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid . Nina Ruslanova who plays mother in the film Iskra, received in 1988, among others, for her role in ... and tomorrow was war , the Nika Best Actress.
Web links
- ... and war was tomorrow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See kino-teatr.ru
- ↑ Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk: Endgame. The 1989 revolution in the GDR. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68407-4 , p. 74 f.
- ↑ ... and tomorrow was war. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de