Shchors (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Shchors |
| Original title | Щорс |
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| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1939 |
| length | 142 minutes |
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| Director | Oleksandr Dowschenko , Julia Solnzewa |
| script | Oleksandr Dovschenko |
| production | Oleksandr Dovschenko |
| music | Dmitri Kabalevsky |
| camera | Yuri Yekelchik |
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Shchors ( Russian Щорс , also under the English name Shchors published) is a 1939 published Soviet feature film by Alexander Dovzhenko .
General
The film, commissioned by Josef Stalin , is an exaggeratedly pathetic biographical portrait of the division commander of the Red Army and Ukrainian partisan leader Nikolai Alexandrovich Shchors , who had become a popular revolutionary hero above all at the instigation of his widow Rostova-Shchors. The action takes place in the Russian Civil War of 1918/19 in Ukraine . Shchors founds the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Regiment "Bogun" from groups of insurgents and fights against nationalists and German occupiers.
The film, the shooting of which began in 1936, had its premiere on May 1, 1939 in Kiev .
The film was restored in 1964 by the " Mosfilm " film studio .
action
Encouraged by the revolutionary vigor, courage and energy of their leader Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Schchors, in 1919 peasant and workers' troops rallied in Ukraine, devastated by civil war, to defeat the foreign conquerors and the enemies of the revolution. Shchors and his troops penetrate as far as Kiev, the seat of the bourgeois nationalists under their leader Petlyura , and take the city. More villages and towns fall. A bitter and loss-making battle breaks out over Berdychiv . But here too, Shchors' revolutionary army ultimately remains victorious.
However, it does not take long before a new threat looms: this time the Polish Pans are invading Ukraine and General Dragomirov is marching on Kiev. Schors once again rallies the country's revolutionary forces and strikes out for a victorious counterstrike.
Awards
- 1941: Stalin Prize 1st class for the director Oleksandr Dowschenko and the actors Yevgeny Samoilow and Ivan Skuratow
Reviews
After the premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1968, the Protestant film observer judged : "Talkative and exaggeratedly pathetic contemporary document, which today looks antiquated and boring and is also of little importance in terms of film history."
literature
- Georges Sadoul: Dictionary of films. University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles 1972, p. 338, ISBN 0-520-01864-8
- Lubomir Hosejko: Histoire du cinéma ukrainia, 1896–1995. Éditions A Die, 2001, ISBN 2-908730-67-7
- Эмилия Косничук: Киноправда "Щорса" и кирпичи, из которых она строилась. Еженедельник 2000, No. 4 (399) from 25.-31. January 2008
Web links
- Shchors in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Shchors at Allmovie (English)
- Щорс bei Энциклопедия отечественного кино (Lexicon of National Cinema; Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 101/1968, pp. 94–95