Samenvattingen(1)
Mark Donskoy was already an established, Stalin Award-winning artist when he created his inspirational masterpiece Raduga, a depiction of life in a Nazi-occupied Ukrainian village that refuses to have its spirit crushed. The cruel Germans try everything to this end: they humiliate, starve, hang, torture, and shoot the civilians, but Soviet hearts and minds remain red. Amidst this sea of collective suffering, the figure of a former partisan named Olga rises. She has returned to the village to bear a child, only to endure the ultimate sacrifice. Soviet authorities used Raduga not only to boost the domestic morale, they also instantly exported the film as a reminder of Soviet suffering. American president Franklin Roosevelt was allegedly so moved by Raduga that he wrote Donskoy a personal letter. Different sources cite different words of American admiration; in the best version, FDR declares the following: “Soviets are fighting not only for Russian mothers and children, but also for American mothers and children.” (Viennale)
(meer)Acteurs
Нина Алисова
Sovjet-Unie
Beste films:
Raduga (1943)
Těni zabytych predkov (1964)
Dama s sobačkoj (1960)
Natalija Užvij
Keizerrijk Rusland
Beste films:
Raduga (1943)
Yelena Tyapkina
Keizerrijk Rusland
Beste films:
Raduga (1943)
Vojna i mir II: Nataša Rostova (1966)
Vojna i mir I: Andrej Bolkonskij (1965)
Anna Lisyanskaya
Keizerrijk Rusland
Beste films:
Raduga (1943)
Pomni imja svojo (1974)
Kak zakaljalas stal (1942)
Vasiliy Dashenko
Keizerrijk Rusland
Beste films:
Raduga (1943)