The deserter (1933)

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Movie
German title The deserter
Original title Дезертир
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1933
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Vsevolod Pudovkin
script Nina Agadzhanova-Schutko
M. Krasnostawski
A. Lasebnikow
production Film company Meschrabpom
music Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin
camera Anatoly Golovna
occupation
Strikebreaker Pudovkin 1933, .jpg

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"A politically consciously one-sided film supported by pathetic partisanship, highly interesting and worth seeing as a historical document."

- Lexicon of International Films

"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."

- The New York Times

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vienna Film Museum
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ See Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski, p. 276. Stuttgart 1973
  4. ↑ a b The deserter in the lexicon of international filmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel from April 1, 1968
  6. ↑ IMDb
  7. ^ The New York Times, October 13, 1934

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