Russian Miracle // Russkoe chudo

[Dietmar Hochmuth]

Was this a question? If yes, here are the credits of this film: 

It was not a British couple, but a man with a British name (coming from a
very rich German family and seeking the opposite of his class, founding it
in Babelsberg/GDR): Andrew Thorndike (1909-1979), his wife: Annelie (born
1925) - a (so to say) "key couple" among the East German documentary
Filmmakers. The film was mostly a collage of archive footage; very welcome
in the USSR (they received 'even' the Lenin Price). 

DAS RUSSISCHE WUNDER: Written and directed by Annelie and Andrew Thorndike.
Music by Paul Dessau. B&W - 35 mm, 2 parts - it was a co-production
(GDR/USSR) from 1963. 
Here is the poster: http://www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de/defa/0656/0656p.htm 

Feel free to ask more - I knew these people and there "very special" working
conditions (due to their exemplary bourgeois background). 

Kind regards, 
Dietmar Hochmuth

www.stanford.edu/~dietmar  

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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian Miracle

I remember seeing a film of this name many years ago - as I recall it was
made in East Germany by a British couple named Thorndike....
MIke Berry


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Mike Berry
Centre for Russian and              Tel: 0121-414-6355
East European Studies,              Fax: 0121-414-3423
University of Birmingham,           email: m.j.berry.rus at bham.ac.uk
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.

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