You're not born a soldier
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | You're not born a soldier |
| Original title | Возмездие (Vosmesdije) |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander stumble |
| script | Alexander stumble |
| production | Mosfilm |
| camera | Nikolai Olonowski |
| cut | Alexandra Kamagorova |
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You Are Not Born a Soldier is a Soviet feature film by Alexander Stolper from 1967 . It was based on motifs from the novel of the same name by Konstantin Simonow . The original title of the film is Russian Возмездие ( retaliation ), an alternative title is Russian Солдатами не рождаются ( soldiers are not born ).
The film is the continuation of the film Die Lebenden und die Toten and takes place during the encirclement of the German 6th Army by the Red Army in Stalingrad. It covers the time frame of the turn of the year 1942/43 up to the surrender of Friedrich Paulus and the end of the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943. Among the actors are the main characters introduced in the previous film, the political officer Sinzow, General Serpilin and the doctor Tanja.
action
It is the last day of 1942 and the German 6th Army with 22 divisions has been encircled in Stalingrad for six weeks. Both sides are waiting for an attack, but Major Barrabanov, a notorious drinker, attacks German positions on his own in order to conquer a strategically worthless hill. He is deposed and later attempts suicide. His superior General Serpilin knows that the battalion now has to conquer the hill, but is called to Moscow shortly before the attack: his wife is in hospital after a heart attack and dies shortly after seeing her again. Serpilin also meets up with his son, who broke up with Serpilin a few years ago after learning that he is not his real father. Serpilin tells him to report to the front for the next day. Only after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad will he find out that his son was killed in the first battle.
Serpilin meets the doctor Tanja again in Moscow, with whom he escaped from being surrounded by German soldiers the previous year. He tells her that their mutual friend Ivan Sinzow fell a short time later. Shortly thereafter, he returned to the Don Front, where he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army. The experienced Major General Kuzmich took over his division. The new battalion commander and thus the successor of the drinker Barrabanow becomes Captain Sinzow, who was only badly wounded. The next day he attacks German positions. In this way, the Soviet soldiers can liberate an area where the Germans had set up a prison camp for Soviet soldiers. The prisoners were not given food for 15 days; numerous men have died. Serpilin calls Tanja to the front as a doctor and she takes care of the survivors. In the hospital she meets Sinzow and tells him that his wife died as a partisan, which he already knew.
Old Kuzmich has sustained an injury but is hiding it. His superior wants to depose him as division commander, but Serpilin is committed to ensuring that he can end the current operation. At that moment it was reported that the front in Stalingrad had been breached. One of the battalions that are uniting is that which Sinzow is in charge of as commander. In the period that followed, there were further associations. Sinzow also succeeds in arresting the German division commander General Insfeld. He brings him to Serpilin, who now also learns that Sinzow survived. A short time later, Field Marshal Paulus surrenders and goes into captivity with his staff. But the battle for Stalingrad is not over. Sinzow is wounded in the following skirmishes. On February 2, 1943, the last skirmishes were over and the mothers at home also learned that the Battle of Stalingrad had ended. The mourning for the lost sons and daughters is mixed with the joy. The soldiers withdraw from Stalingrad. Tanja is looking for Sinzow, who, due to his injury, does not leave with the others. His deputy Ilyin promises to bring Tanja and Sinzow into contact.
production
One Is Not Born A Soldier was filmed from 1967 to 1968. The film was released in Soviet cinemas on May 19, 1969, five years after its predecessor The Living and the Dead . Both films were directed by Alexander Stolper, and the main actors were cast equally. The film opened in GDR cinemas on August 21, 1970 and was shown for the first time on GDR television on May 8, 1972 on DFF 1 . Icestorm released both films in boxed on DVD in 2008.
The film was the second part of a planned trilogy (including Simonov's The Last Summer ), but the third part was never realized.
synchronization
The dubbing was directed by Ernst Dahle , the DEFA dubbing dialogues were written by Harald Thiemann .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ivan Sinzov | Kirill Lavrov | Eberhard Mellies |
| Serpilin | Anatoly Papanov | Günter Grabbert |
| Tanja Owssjannikowa | Lyudmila Krylova | Jutta Hoffmann |
| Ivan Kuzmich | Alexander Plotnikov | Hans Hardt-Hardtloff |
| Levashov | Yuri Stoskov | Jürgen Frohriep |
| Konstantin Prokofievich Sakharov | Yuri Wisbor | Günther Simon |
| Berezhnoy | Grigori Gai | Wolfgang Dehler |
| Nikolai Ilyin | Sergei Shakurov | Erik Veldre |
criticism
For the film service , Man is not born as a soldier was a “film with good performance and gripping individual scenes”, which, however, is not as impressive as the previous film.
Web links
- Man is born not as a soldier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- You are not born a soldier on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Dieter Krusche: Lexicon of the movies. From silent films to today . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1977, p. 541.
- ↑ See. You are not born a soldier on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Information according to the film leader
- ↑ You are not born a soldier. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .