Raduga (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Raduga |
| Original title | Радуга |
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| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1944 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mark Donskoi |
| script | Wanda Wasilewska |
| music | Lew Black |
| camera | Boris Monastyrski |
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Raduga is a Soviet film from 1944. The black and white film was made during the Second World War under the direction of Mark Donskoi , a pupil of Eisenstein , based on the novella Rainbow over the Dnieper by Wanda Wasilewska , which also wrote the screenplay.
The film historian Rob Edelman saw in the "angry drama" a possible influence on the Italian neorealism of the 1950s.
action
The film is set in Ukraine, which was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1943 during the Second World War . The pregnant farmer Olena fights as a partisan , while her sister, who is the wife of a front officer in the Red Army , is the lover of the German local commandant.
Olena returns to her home village for the birth of her child and falls into the hands of the local commander. He tries to break Olena's will with physical and psychological violence so that she betrays the positions of the partisans. However, he does not succeed. When the village was conquered by the Soviet troops, the returned husband took revenge on his wife for her infidelity. The surviving Germans are to be brought to a “people's court” after the war.
Reviews
- In the New York Times of October 23, 1944, Bosley Crowther praised the production and the style of directing, which produced enormous realism. Raduga is a powerful, heartbreaking film.
- Hal Erickson writes in the All Movie Guide that the film consistently offers brilliant performance and deserves distribution outside of Russia.
literature
- Nena Zorkaja: Cinema in times of war. Visualizations 1941-1945. in: Eastern Europe. Gaps of memory, pp. 319–336, 55th volume / issue 4–6, Berlin 2005, ISSN 0030-6428
Web links
- Raduga in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Raduga at the German Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Donskoi's résumé on filmreference.com , accessed February 13, 2008
- ↑ Raduga (1944), Terror Reign by Nazis , article of October 23, 1944 by Bosley Crowther , accessed February 13, 2008
- ^ Plot Synopsis in the All Movie Guide , accessed February 16, 2008