The nineteen

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Movie
German title The nineteen
Original title Юность наших отцов
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1958
length 82 minutes
Rod
Director Mikhail Kalik
Boris Ryzarev
script Ideja Alejewskaja
Boris Ryzarew
Mikhail Kalik
production Gorky Film Studios
music Mikael Tariwerdiev
camera Naum Ardaschnikow
Boris Seredin
Bally Orasow
cut Berta Pogrebinskaya
occupation

The Nineteen , also The Youth of Our Fathers (original title: Юность наших отцов , Junost naschich otzow ), is a Soviet feature film directed by Mikhail Kalik and Boris Ryzarew from 1958 based on the novel The Nineteen (original title: Разгром ) by . , Rasgrom Alexander Fadeev from 1927.

action

The year is 1919. The young Soviet republic is struggling with the invaders whom it has surrounded on all sides. In the Far East , the population joins the partisans . This film shows an episode of these battles. It is the story of a small partisan unit of miners made up of simple, ordinary people.

Iwan Moroska is a partisan who, after an assignment he had to do in the city, rides back to his unit, which has found accommodation in a village. On the way he meets another group of partisans who are being pursued by a white unit and who leave one of their fighters injured while fleeing, whom Moroska takes on his horse and thus saves his life. Even so, he gets in trouble in the village when it turns out that he has stolen melons from a farmer. In the following village assembly the peasants decide that it is a matter for the partisans, since he belongs to them. Although the partisan Dubov is asked to release him, he gets away again after an apology speech.

After the meeting, the commander Levinson took his deputy Baklanov aside and explained to him that Japanese troops had been deposited at Olga and Vladimiro-Alexandrovskoye . All of Suchan has been taken by the enemy and now the task of the partisan unit is to break through to the Tudo-Waks valley in order to unite with the main units. The next day the whole village bids farewell to the unit. But already in the first fights the entourage has to be given up. The dead are buried quickly and the others make their way into the taiga to the hospital . Here Morosko meets his wife Varya, who is talking to the wounded Pavel Metschik, whom Moroska has saved.

While the leaders of the partisan unit decide to break through the white lines to the Tudo-Waks Valley, Moroska rides into the next village to look for provisions for the people and the horses. He cannot achieve anything there because it is occupied by the Cossacks . So now some men are trying to catch at least a few fish until they have to move on as the enemy approaches. The partisan Meteliza was given the task of finding out in the next village whether the unit had to go around it or could ride through it. On the way he meets a boy with whom he leaves his horse to look around the village undisturbed. In a house in the village, he observes several White Guards playing cards. When he wants to disappear again, he is discovered by soldiers and arrested. The next day, the villagers should say whether they know him. When no one answers, a large farmer comes with the boy by his collar and says that he had the prisoner's horse with him. Now an officer tries to get the boy to talk and chokes him. Meteliza cannot watch that and jumps in the back of the officer. During the fight that followed, he took up his pistol and shot Meteliza.

At the same time, the partisan unit marched on, although Meteliza did not return. On the way they meet a column of 60 white guards who they ambush to ambush them. When they flee, the partisans ride after them and look for a fight, except for Pawel Metschik, who is hiding away from the action in the forest. On the way back to his unit, he meets Moroska, who mourns the loss of his horse. The fight against the whites is successful and the partisans advance into the village where Meteliza was shot. After questioning the residents, the large farmer who delivered the boy is shot as a punishment. This is an occasion for Metschik to question whether the shooting never stops.

During the night the village is attacked by the whites and the partisans have to flee. After having left the pursuers behind, they march on towards their goal. Suddenly they are stopped by a swamp in which they threaten to sink. After a moment of helplessness, the commander orders Lewinson to build a fascine through the moor. While Dubov's miners' platoon takes care of stopping the pursuers, the others, under Baklanov's direction, build the dam through the swamp. After the partisans have crossed the swamp, they blow up the fascine with the soldiers already on it and thus have their backs free. To be safe on the way, Lewinson sends a patrol , Metschik and Moroska belong to. In case of danger, they should fire three shots. When Metschik sees a group of white soldiers, he is frightened and flees, albeit without firing the agreed shots. Moroska is the first to ride into the trap, but can fire the three shots in time before he is shot himself. Now the partisans only have one attempt to break through the opposing lines, which succeeds with very great losses. The rest of the unit now makes its way to the Tudo Waks valley.

Production and publication

This black and white film premiered in the Soviet Union on October 14, 1958 .

On the occasion of the week of German-Soviet friendship, the film had its German premiere under the title The Nineteen on May 8, 1959 in several Berlin cinemas. The film was broadcast on German television on December 16, 1966.

criticism

In the Critique of the New Age , GS wrote:

“Students from the Moscow Film School translated the exciting events of the book into the film of the same name, which has poignant scenes, which in places is impressively well photographed, but which as a whole is not convincing. In addition to artistically mature achievements, there are amateurishly cumbersome scenes; The big breath is missing, an often confused, confusing sequence of scenes sometimes even makes it difficult to follow the action. "

The lexicon of international film writes that this formally moderate war film is only convincing in a few episodes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 7, 1966, p. 10
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 8, 1959, p. 4
  3. ↑ The Nineteen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 24, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used