No comrades
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| Original title | No comrades |
| Country of production | Germany , Russia |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 69 minutes |
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| Director | Beate Lehr-Metzger |
| script | Beate Lehr-Metzger |
| camera | Beate Lehr-Metzger |
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No Comrades is a German documentary film by the author and journalist Beate Lehr-Metzger from 2011 .
Background and plot
After the start of the German-Soviet War by the German Wehrmacht on June 22, 1941, several million people were taken prisoner in the Soviet Union in the months that followed . Around two million died by the spring of 1942 - many of them of starvation, illness or targeted killings. Lehr-Metzger documents this story using the example of two prisoners of war. The starting point for the film were Wehrmacht index cards with which every prisoner of war was recorded. These documents were discovered and analyzed by the historians Rolf Keller and Reinhard Otto in a Moscow military archive . The fate of the Soviet soldiers Nikolai Kurilow and Boris Schaporow , who were imprisoned on Langeoog during this time, is exemplified . Kurilov dies in January 1942; Shaporov survived the war .
Publications
The film has not yet been broadcast in Germany. For example, the WDR justified its rejection by stating that the film “is not for television, at best it is suitable for schooling”. In Germany, the film was shown in July 2013 at the initiative of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne in the Museum Ludwig and at the end of January 2014 at the initiative of the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” foundation in the Kino Central in Berlin . On Russian television, the film was in October 2013 Rossiya K .
Awards
Lehr-Metzger received the Marion Samuel Prize and the Pushkin Medal for the film .
Web links
- No Mates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No comrades: Documentary by Beate Lehr-Metzger , website Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie eV, accessed on January 9, 2014.
- The communist is not a comrade: The mass murder of Soviet prisoners of war in World War II , Der Spiegel magazine of February 13, 1978, issue 7/1978.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b NS Documentation Center shows “No Comrades” in the Museum Ludwig , City of Cologne - Office for Press and Public Relations, July 2, 2013, accessed on January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Table of contents of the film ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Alexander Ten-Maaren film, accessed on January 8, 2014.
- ↑ a b jwit: Distinction : Taboos broken . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , November 10, 2012, accessed January 8, 2014.
- ↑ Film screening “No Comrades”, documentary by Beate-Lehr-Metzger ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Foundation EVZ, accessed on January 8, 2014.
