The living and the dead

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Movie
German title The living and the dead
Original title Живые и мёртвые
(Schiwye i mjortwye)
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1963
length 201 minutes
Rod
Director Alexander stumble
script Alexander stumble
camera Nikolai Olonowski
occupation
Anatoly Papanov in the film The Living and the Dead on a Russian postage stamp from 2001

The Living and the Dead ( Russian Живые и мёртвые ) is a two-part feature film based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Michailowitsch Simonow . The German premiere was on November 6, 1964 in the GDR . On November 20, 1964 it was shown in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany . The sequel Man is not born as a soldier was shot in 1967 by the same director, also based on the eponymous model by Simonov.

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The plot of the film runs from the first days of the German-Soviet war to the beginning of the counterattack by the Soviet army near Moscow.

The correspondent for a soldiers' newspaper, Ivan Sinzow, is on vacation at the beginning of the war. He immediately returns to his unit based in Belarus. However, he does not manage to find his editorial team. Instead, he joins a regiment that continues the fight and is eventually encircled. With Serpilin as regimental and ultimately division commander, the survivors break out of the cauldron. On the transport to the hinterland, the soldiers get caught in a German tank attack and are scattered. Sinzow, the military doctor Tanja Ovsjannikowa and the soldier Petya Solotaryov make their way to a house in the forest. The seriously ill Tanja has to be left behind. Sinzow is wounded on the further escape. Zolotaryov takes his papers but fails to get Sinzov away. Sinzow finds his way to Moscow without papers and has great problems proving that he is neither a deserter nor a coward. He proved himself at the front in the winter battle off Moscow in 1941.

Reviews

The living and the dead at Kino International , Berlin

“The (...) film takes a critical look at Stalin's warfare, among other things. The DEFA dubbing made the original version even more patriotic . "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

Others

“The living and the dead” is a line from the ecumenical creed .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Lexicon of International Films" (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.

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