The thirteen
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German title | The thirteen |
Original title | Тринадцать (Trinadzat) |
Country of production | USSR |
original language | Russian |
Publishing year | 1937 |
length | 90 minutes |
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Director | Mikhail Romm |
script | Jossif Prut, Michail Romm |
production | Mosfilm |
music | Anatoly Aleksandrov |
camera | Boris Woltschek |
cut | Tatyana Likhachyova |
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The Thirteen ( Russian : Trinadzat / Cyrillic Тринадцать) is a feature film by the Soviet director Michail Romm from 1936 . The film glorifies the struggle to enforce Soviet rule in the southern regions of the former Russian Empire against local resistance.
action
Central Asia in the 1920s. Ten demobilized Red Army soldiers , a commander with his wife and an old geologist cross the desert towards home. Having lost their way in the sandstorm, the Thirteen seek shelter in a ruined wall. There they discover a hidden, almost dried up well and two machine guns with ammunition. No doubt about it - they have stumbled upon a secret base of the Basmati , those notorious bandits who have stubbornly resisted Soviet power for years.
Instead of being satisfied with the destruction of the enemy's lair, Commander Shuravlyov developed a daring plan, because he knew that a large unit of the Red Army was on the march some distance away . With their help, it could finally be possible to deal a decisive blow to the Basmatschen. Shuravlyov sends one of the Red Army soldiers on the dangerous route through the desert alone to inform the unit, and holed up with the rest in the ruins in order to induce the Basmachs to attack and then hold them off until the reinforcements arrive.
In fact, the Basmats are not long in coming. First a parliamentarian appears who introduces himself as Lieutenant Colonel Skuratov. He offers free withdrawal in exchange for the surrender of the machine guns. Shuravlyov must of course reject this, but at the same time cleverly disguise his actually hopeless situation so that the enemy does not suspect the planned trap. So he is emphatically self-confident and claims that the well has enough water and that his troops are strong enough to withstand a siege longer than the besiegers themselves if necessary.
A merciless struggle breaks out. Again and again, the overwhelming power of the Basmati attacked. The defenders still manage to repel them, but one after the other falls, including Shuravlyov. Soldier Aktchurin, who then takes command, shows the same severity and determination. When Skuratov, already clearly marked by thirst and heat, wants to negotiate again, he also turns him away and pretends that the defense is still in top shape and has plenty of water.
Finally, after Aktschurin, the last survivor, has just used the last ammunition, the army detachment arrives at the battlefield. Fortunately, she had found the messenger in time, who was already dying of thirst. The Basmatschen are defeated and their leader captured. The wounded Skuratov is led into the ruin, where he collapses, completely exhausted, while Aktschurin, shortly before also almost at the end of his strength, has already pulled himself up again.
Emergence
The outdoor shots were taken from February to August 1936 in the Karakum desert not far from the city of Ashgabat , then called Ashchabat in Russian , today the capital of Turkmenistan .
synchronization
The German-language dubbing took place at the company PHÖNIX-FILM, which had been founded in 1946 in the English sector of Berlin, had also received a license for the Soviet occupation zone in 1947 and was taken over by the DEFA film company in 1951 . The following spoke: Uwe Döring (Swiridenko), Guido Goroll (Skuratow), Angelika Hurwicz (Schurawljowa), Ernst Kahler (Shurba), Fritz Kösling (Levkojew), Peter Marx (Aktschurin), Waldemar Pottier (Petrow), Georg Reuter (Kulijew), Raimund Schelcher (Schurawljow), Hans Schoelermann (Postjakow), Frank Scholze (Muradow) and Gerry Wolff (Timoschkin).
The dubbed film ran in GDR cinemas on May 19, 1950. The GDR German television broadcasting station first broadcast it on September 2, 1968.
Trivia
- The US war film Sahara by director Zoltan Korda from 1943 is based on a story by Philip McDonald based on the film Trinadzat .
- The appearance of the then well-known and popular actor Nikolaj Kryuchkov in the role of the Red Army soldier Nikolai Gusiev lasted only about a second, he was not mentioned in the opening credits.
- Jelena Kuzmina, actress of the commander's wife MN Shuravlyova, later married the director.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Müller: Phoenix film. Federal archive DR 126 (Phönix-Film), Koblenz June 2001, online
- ↑ "Trinadzat / Die Dreizehn" in the DEFA Foundation's film database (www.defa-murnau.de)
Web links
Thirteen in the Internet Movie Database (English)