Okraina

original title:
Okraina
other titles:
Randbezirk, Outskirts, The Patriots
country / year of production:
Soviet Union / 1933
original length:
98 min. , black/white
premiere:
25 March 1933
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Boris Barnet
film script:
Boris Barnet , Konstantin Finn
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cast (role):
Yelena Kuzmina , Aleksandr Chistyakov , Sergei Komarov
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plot synopsis:
In a provincial Russian village during World War One: Mueller is a German prisoner of war, put to work in the village's cobbler shop. The film describes the relationship between the prisoner and his largely benign captors.
"Okraina" is essentially a plea for tolerance and as it is a Russian film of the 1930s, of course, there are none more tolerant than the Soviets.
keywords:
prisoners of war , order and obedience , communism , collaboration , prisoner camps , comradeship
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
Wassili Gurko: Russland: 1914-1917 - Erinnerung an Krieg und Revolution. Berlin: Dt. Verl.-Ges. für Politik und Geschichte, 1921.

Inge Pardon (Hrsg.): Lager, Front oder Heimat: Deutsche Kriegsgefangene in Sowjetrussland 1917 bis 1920. München: Saur, 1994.
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availability:
VHS NTSC, DVD Code 1