Exploits of a scout
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Exploits of a scout |
| Original title | Подвиг разведчика |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Boris Barnet |
| script |
Michail Bleiman , Konstantin Issajew , Michail Makljarski |
| music |
Dmitri Klebanow , Oskar Sandler |
| camera | Daniil Demuzki |
| cut | N. Gorbenko |
| occupation | |
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Exploits of a scout ( Russian Подвиг разведчика ) is a Soviet spy thriller directed by Boris Barnet from 1947, based on a novella by Mikhail Makljarski . The film is about a Soviet agent behind the German lines in the vicinity of Hitler's bodyguard.
The work is the first film to focus on Soviet intelligence officers behind enemy lines against the backdrop of World War II . It became the predecessor and stimulator of well-known Soviet spy films such as Seventeen Moments of Spring . The heroic deeds of a scout was the successful feature film of 1947 in the Soviet Union with 22.73 million viewers. On February 20, 2008, the production, which was not preceded by an evaluation by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People, was broadcast in a television premiere on the German / French cultural channel arte in the original language with German subtitles.
action
The action takes place during the German-Soviet War in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa, which was occupied by the Nazis . During a conversation with his girlfriend Nina, the young major Alexei Fedotow receives a delicate and dangerous assignment from the secret service . As a loyal reconnaissance officer, he is supposed to spy on the German Lieutenant General Kühn, the co-organizer of the Wehrmacht who is in constant contact with Hitler's staff, at the Fuehrer's headquarters in Wolfsschanze , an unknown location that the Soviet reconnaissance suspects is near East Prussian Lötzen . However, his direct superior warns him explicitly about General Erich von Rummelsburg, the head of the military situation center, who is seen as a particularly strong and serious opponent.
The courageous Soviet agent travels to East Prussia as a disguised Swiss business representative under the code name "Heinrich Eckert" and from then on lives with the constant fear of exposure. Nevertheless, after successfully passing the local police check, he contacted the wheelchair-dependent businessman Friedrich Pommer, who urgently needed new capital with his company in order to get to know his son Willi. Willi Pommer is an adjutant to General von Rummelsburg. As a pretense, the scout enters into a business relationship with the Pomeranians, and partner Willi, out of gratitude, elevates him to the rank of German officer with all the associated privileges.
With the help of the German-Ukrainian agent “Captain Bereschnoj”, von Rummelsburg succeeds in smashing a larger group of hostile terrorists and scouts in the special zone around Vinnitsa in the “Adler” company. For tactical reasons, however, he releases three exposed underground fighters, including the highly decorated spy Bereschnoj.
Fedotov found out that that cell had been broken up and contacted his headquarters for help in order to ask for human and financial resources, but the hoped-for reinforcement was intercepted by the German intelligence and imprisoned. Despite adverse circumstances, Fedotov found out about an informer in the Bolshevik underground who was personally chosen by Rummelsburg to subvert the Soviet resistance. Quite on his own he sets out to seek out the three underground fighters who have been spared by Rummelsburg, as he suspects the traitor to be in these ranks. First he checks the impoverished farmer Grigory Leschtschuk, but the innocent man is stabbed to death by the unscrupulous Berezhnoy on behalf of the general in order to isolate the still unknown Soviet scout, which he succeeds. He realizes that his personal situation is getting worse and that he is slowly running the risk of being discovered.
Regardless of personal dangers, Fedotov decides to visit the two remaining freedmen. This is how he gets to the cold-blooded Bereschnoj, whom he unmasked as a traitor and liquidated after a brief examination. Astakhov, the third man, becomes his contact. Shortly thereafter, the Soviet agent learned of the imminent arrival of Kühn, who had been promoted to Commander-in-Chief, who had brought with him an operational plan approved by the Fiihrer for a massive, decisive advance against the Red Army in the south of the front. Thanks to the friendly relationship with Willi Pommer, who puts him on the guest list of his upcoming birthday party, Fedotow gets to know the drunk Kühn. Days later he tried in vain to steal Kühn's secret correspondence, but since his plan failed, he instead kidnapped the astonished German commander-in-chief to Moscow. In the Heimant, Fedotov hands the abducted person over to state power. At the end of the film, the film's celebrated hero hugs his girlfriend Nina.
Trivia
Exploits of a scout is considered Vladimir Putin's favorite film .
Web links
- Exploits of a scout in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039716/business
- ↑ cf. http://www.arte.tv/de/woche/244,broadcastingNum=818800,day=5,week=8,year=2008.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically saved as marked defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Heroic deeds of a scout ( Memento of December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Arte, March 10, 2008
- ↑ Boris Barnet: The Adventures of Kinopoeten BB in the Land of the Bolsheviks , Austrian Film Museum , 2005
