At dawn it is still quiet

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Movie
German title At dawn it is still quiet
Original title А зори здесь тихие
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1972
length 188 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Stanislav Rostotski
script Stanislaw Rostozki , Boris Wassiljew
music Kirill Molchanov
camera Vyacheslav Shumsky
cut Valentina Mironova
occupation

It's still quiet at dawn is a Soviet anti-war film that was made in 1972 after Boris Vasilyev 's Powest of the same name (1969). It consists of two parts In the hinterland and Battle of local importance .

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The film is set in Karelia in 1942 during the Great Patriotic War . In flashbacks, memories of the protagonists are shown as dream sequences throughout the plot.

Part 1

The Star China Waskow, a Flakeinheit commands, is assigned a group of war voluntary young women. During an air raid, they succeed in shooting down an enemy aircraft. In the recovered maps there are references to possible attack plans by the Germans. Later, Untersergeantin Osjanina accidentally observed two German paratroopers transporting explosives through the forest. Waskow selects five girls to help him capture the two enemy soldiers and sets off with them into the woods. With a march through extensive swamps, the small unit shortens the assumed route of the Germans and takes a position in wait on a chain of hills.

Part 2

It soon turns out, however, that not two but sixteen heavily armed German soldiers jumped off, whose supposed destination is the Murman Railway on the White Sea-Baltic Canal . The unit can use diversionary maneuvers to hold up the enemy for a while, while Waskow sends a soldier back to the garrison to request reinforcements. But soon the group has to take on the unequal fight. The young women have little to no combat experience. One by one they perish. Waskow is the only one to survive, who - seriously wounded - takes the last three German soldiers holed up in a forest hut prisoner.

After about 30 years, Waskow visits the scene with his adopted son and erects a memorial plaque for the fallen women. They meet a group of carefree youngsters.

History of origin

The literary model, the story of the same name, was published in the literary magazine Junost in 1969 . In 1971 it was staged as a play in the Taganka Theater in Moscow. The filming took place in 1972 in Karelia - including in the village of Sjargilachta - as well as in the Mosfilm studios .

Artistic means

The main plot is shot in black and white, the flashbacks and the later scenes in color. The film music used includes Dmitri Shostakovich's Waltz No. 2 from the Suite for Variety Orchestra .

Reviews

Lexicon of international films : “The hero song of the woman in the Soviet army; humanly appealing and interesting in terms of topic and message. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At dawn it is still quiet. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used