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Title The Russians Are Coming
Published DEFA Film Library, 1968
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): .flv file, sound
Summary Originally banned by Communist Authorities, Heiner Carow's semi-autobiographical film was not approved for final production. Officials argued it focused on an ordinary Nazi follower, rather than an antifascist hero, and that it was "contaminated with modernism." The film, which includes clips from the Nazi propaganda film Kolberg (1945), was finally reconstructed and released in 1987. As the end of WWII is fast approaching, 16-year-old Günter, a member of the Hitler Youth, still believes in a German victory. He is drafted into Nazi Germany's last-ditch effort to resist the approaching Soviet Army. When he is captured and accused of killing a Soviet forced laborer, Günter faces an intense psychological crisis
Notes Title from title frames
Film
In Process Record
Performer Gert Krause-Melzer, Dorothea Meißner , Viktor Perevalov
Event Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1968
Notes In English
Subject Motion pictures, German.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures.
History, Military
German language.
Foreign films.
German language.
History, Military.
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures, German.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Form Streaming video
Author Carow, Heiner, film director
Krause-Melzer, Gert, actor
Meißner , Dorothea, actor
Perevalov, Viktor, actor
DEFA Film Library (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)