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Schwarzer Zwieback

UdSSR DDR 1971/1972 Spielfilm

How does one become a revolutionary? The process is hard and by necessity gruesome, as Soviet citizens know – and as Kurt, a homeward bound German prisoner-of-war, soon learns. All the weeping and wailing in the world will not save people’s grain from confiscation in this autumn of 1918. The young revolutionary Tanya goes about her work with a steely determination that confuses the soft German almost as much as the Zhivago-esque figure she cuts while adding wood to the stove. Kurt begins to understand and love Tanya and her new-born world. Rappaport unfolds a vision of our common political origins – three years after 1968, and outside of any time at all in terms of his iconography.

Source: Filmfestival goEast 2012

Credits

Director

  • Gerbert Rappaport

Director of photography

  • Eduard A. Rosowski
  • Rolf Schrade

Editing

  • Isolde L. Golowko

Music

  • Aleksandr Mnatsakanyan

Cast

  • Natalya Varley
    Tanja
  • Rüdiger Joswig
    Kurt
  • Nikolai Merslikin
    Woronin
  • Viktor Uralski
    Kajumow
  • Jessy Rameik
    Betsy
  • Harald Hauser
    Kirchner
  • Rolf Herricht
    Rüschi
  • Harry Hindemith
  • Fred Delmare
  • Artjom Karapitjan

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Babelsberg")
  • Lenfilm (Leningrad)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Gerbert Rappaport

Scenario

  • Michail J. Blejman
  • Edith Gorrish

based on

  • Jelisaweta Drabkina (Erlebnisbericht)

Script editor

  • Alexander S. Shurawin
  • Dieter Wolf

Director of photography

  • Eduard A. Rosowski
  • Rolf Schrade

Production design

  • Vsevolod Ulitko
  • Richard Schmidt

Costume design

  • Ninelle G. Lew
  • Katrin Johnsen

Editing

  • Isolde L. Golowko

Music

  • Aleksandr Mnatsakanyan

Cast

  • Natalya Varley
    Tanja
  • Rüdiger Joswig
    Kurt
  • Nikolai Merslikin
    Woronin
  • Viktor Uralski
    Kajumow
  • Jessy Rameik
    Betsy
  • Harald Hauser
    Kirchner
  • Rolf Herricht
    Rüschi
  • Harry Hindemith
  • Fred Delmare
  • Artjom Karapitjan

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Babelsberg")
  • Lenfilm (Leningrad)

Unit production manager

  • Juri A. Dshogorow

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)
Duration:
2304 m, 84 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (SU): 15.03.1972, Moskau, Mir;
Erstaufführung (DD): 13.04.1972, Berlin, Colosseum

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (SU) Černye suchari
  • Originaltitel (DD) Schwarzer Zwieback
  • Weiterer Titel (SU) Chyornye sukhari
  • Weiterer Titel (SU) Tschornyje suchari

Versions

Original

Duration:
2304 m, 84 min
Format:
35mm, 1:2,35
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (SU): 15.03.1972, Moskau, Mir;
Erstaufführung (DD): 13.04.1972, Berlin, Colosseum

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/schwarzer-zwieback_ea43d4a6d7895006e03053d50b37753d