The yellow passport
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The yellow passport The yellow passport |
| Original title | Земля в плену / Semlja w pljenu |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1928 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fedor Ozep |
| script | Fedor Ozep |
| production | Meshrabpom film, Moscow |
| camera | Louis Forestier |
| occupation | |
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The Yellow Pass , also known as The Yellow Pass , is a 1927 Soviet silent film drama directed by Fedor Ozep with Anna Sten in the leading role.
action
Russia, in the tsarist times. Jakow has seven years of military service behind him. His wife Maria is waiting at home. Trying to live on some land as a farmer is hardly possible, because the plot of land that the landowner has leased to them is stony and not very fertile. Finally, Maria has to bow to the will of the landlord and follow the landlord's daughter Anja into town as a wet nurse. One day Jakow learns that Mary's master has taken Jakow's wife by force. But Jakow's anger is not directed against the Baron. No, on the contrary, he is now rejecting the deeply tormented Maria.
All of this is too much for Mary; she collapses and is then dismissed by the landlord. So their decline will soon begin. When Maria falls into the clutches of the state during a police raid, she is mistaken for a prostitute and receives the so-called “yellow passport” reserved for such women. In fact, the girl is slipping into the “oldest trade in the world”. In a brothel she learns that her Jakow has also fared very badly: he is physically handicapped due to an accident at work and can no longer work. She pulls herself up and visits her husband, who is separated from her. Both draw fresh strength from this reunion for a new beginning.
Production notes
The yellow passport was turned off in 1927 and entered the USSR on February 7, 1928. In Germany, the film was very likely to open in the same year. In view of the audience success, director Fedor Ozep moved to Germany in the same year 1928 and was the first to film the celebrated Tolstoy adaptation The Living Corpse .
Reviews
"A melodramatic story that was routinely staged and that shows good performance and some successful milieu descriptions."
Georges Sadoul called The Yellow Passport a “promising strip”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georges Sadoul: History of Film Art, Vienna 1957, p. 189
Web links
- The yellow passport in the Internet Movie Database (English)