The deserter (1933)
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German title | The deserter |
Original title | Дезертир |
Country of production | USSR |
original language | Russian |
Publishing year | 1933 |
length | 95 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
script |
Nina Agadzhanova-Schutko M. Krasnostawski A. Lasebnikow |
production | Film company Meschrabpom |
music | Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin |
camera | Anatoly Golovna |
occupation | |
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The Deserter (OT: Дезертир ) is a Soviet feature film from 1933 . The director was Vsevolod Pudovkin .
action
The Hamburg shipyard worker Karl Renn is a member of the Communist Party of Germany and receives an order from the USSR to organize a general strike and to put pressure on employers. When the strike broke out, there were several fights with the police. After a month of strike, many workers are so exhausted that they become strike breakers. There is an armed confrontation, which even Karl's wife goes to; but out of cowardice he stays at home. Nevertheless, he was sent to a meeting in the Soviet Union as a delegate of the party, together with 4 comrades. He stays there, works in a blast furnace and is enthusiastic about the communist system. After a few weeks he received the news that his party leader in Hamburg had been slain. He then traveled back to Germany to continue the workers' struggle.
background
The deserter was Vsevolod Pudovkin's first sound film . Most of the film was shot in Moscow from 1931 onwards, partly (especially the exterior shots in the port) also in Hamburg . In 1928, together with Sergej Eisenstein and Grigori Wassiljewitsch Alexandrow, Pudowkin put forward theories about sound film, which he also processed in this film. B. the orchestral counterpoint of visual and acoustic images. These experiments, accused of being “formalistic”, led to Pudovkin being banned from filming for five years by the film official Boris Sakharovich Schumjatski.
The film premiered in Moscow in 1933 and premiered in the United States on October 12, 1934. In Germany, it was first broadcast as the original with subtitles on December 1, 1973 on NDR.
criticism
"A politically consciously one-sided film supported by pathetic partisanship, highly interesting and worth seeing as a historical document."
"Pudovkin proves again his ability to keep the audience in front of the screen, but the running time of the" Deserter "could be 15 minutes shorter without reducing its value."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vienna Film Museum
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 353.
- ↑ See Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski, p. 276. Stuttgart 1973
- ↑ a b The deserter in the lexicon of international films
- ↑ Der Spiegel from April 1, 1968
- ↑ IMDb
- ^ The New York Times, October 13, 1934
Web links
- The deserter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The deserter on www.berlinien.de