Bloody Snow (1984)

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Movie
German title Bloody snow
Original title Wedle wyroków twoich ...
Country of production Germany , Poland
original language German , Polish
Publishing year 1984
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jerzy Hoffman
script Jerzy Hoffman,
Jan Purzycki
production Artur Brauner
music Andrzej Korzyński
camera Jerzy Gościk
cut Zenon Piórek ,
Sybille Windt
occupation

Bloody Snow is the title of a film drama from 1984 , the plot of which is based on authentic experiences in Artur Brauner's childhood .

action

The twelve-year-old Ruth, who grew up in a small town in Poland , is said to be shot together with her mother along with other Jews in a forest after the Wehrmacht marched in. Her mother manages to push her off the truck just in time before she is murdered a few minutes later.

For Ruth now begins an odyssey through all of Poland. At first she stayed with her aunt in the Warsaw Ghetto , which was soon closed by the Nazis and its inhabitants were murdered . Ruth, who again escapes death, finds shelter in an Ursuline convent . Here she spent a year and, thanks to the support of the nuns, got to know the Christian way of life. She thereby assumes the identity of a Christian who, according to her alibi, is the daughter of an Italian. This is the only way to explain her black hair and her “non-Aryan” appearance.

When the monastery is searched by German soldiers and it turns out that the nuns are hosting more Jewish children, they are immediately deported; Ruth escapes again. In a small Polish town, she met Antek, who was the same age and was active in the resistance movement and who, with his colleagues, derailed German trains by exploding the tracks. On the run, however, Ruth loses her coat, which soon falls into the hands of the German occupiers . The German Obersturmführer Knoch, who has made it his usual goal these days to kill every Polish Jew and partisan, takes up the pursuit of the owner of the coat.

Ruth and Antek are arrested and, on behalf of Knoch, are to be shot together with other hostages at the Jewish cemetery. Little does Knoch suspect that one of his adjutants, Anna, is actually Ruth's aunt, who went into hiding before the massacre in the Warsaw ghetto and joined the local Jewish resistance movement. Anna can help the death row inmates to escape at the last minute, albeit at the risk of her own life. Antek and Ruth try to paddle down a nearby river on a raft. However, Antek is shot dead.

Finally, an insert indicates that the last events took place in August 1944 and nothing is known of Ruth's whereabouts.

criticism

  • film-dienst : attempt to make the human dimension of the mass murder of the Jewish people by the Nazi regime understandable on the basis of an individual fate. The honest intention and the poignant theme are largely given away by a superficial staging, poor actor management and a wooden book.

Background information

The film, which was shot on locations in Poland, was shot at a time when films of this type were educating the population about what was going on in the Holocaust. Through Ruth, played by Sharon, Artur Brauner's niece, the viewer gets an authentic picture of that time.

It was first broadcast on September 3, 1984.

Some scenes are also used as flashbacks in the 2014 film Auf das Leben! used, in which Sharon Brauner also played the role of the now grown-up Ruth of the 1970s.

Working title

The film was shot under four different working titles: Freiwild, Ruth, The White Bear, Damned To Freiwild

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sharon Brauner: News: From November 27th in the cinema. “To life!” (November 2014). As of May 28, 2015