Russian WWII film list

[Jonathan Gray]

Thanks to everyone who provided recommendations for Russian films about
WWII.  Following is a listing of these films, books, and articles.

Russian films:
Come and see, Idi i smotri, E. Klimov, 1985.
Fall of Berlin, Padenia Berlina, M. Andzhaparidze, et al, 1950.
Cranes are flying, Letyat zhuravli, Kalatozov, 1957.
Ballad of a soldier, Ballada o soldate, Chkhrai, 1959.  A young war
hero receives a short leave to see his mom back home.
Ivan's childhood / My name is Ivan, Ivanovo detstvo, Tarkovsky, 1962.
Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya, G. Yegiazarov, 1972.  After Yu.
Bondarev's novel of the same name about the Stalingrad battle.
Farewell boys, Do svidaniya mal'chiki, M. Kalik.
Zavtra byla voina, Yu. Kara, 1987.  After the novel by the same title
by B. Vasil'ev.
A zori zdes' tikhie, 1972.  After a story by B. Vasilyev of the same
name.  Story of  girl anti-aircraft gunners.
Ya russkij soldat, 1995.  Based on B. Vasil'ev's story "V spiskakh ne
znachilsya."
Proverka na dorogakh, A. German, 1971 (1985).
Dvadtsat' dnei bez voiny, after a play of the same name by Simonov.
Khronika pikirueshchego bombardirovshchika (about dive-bomber pilots),
N. Birman, 1967.
Ascent, Voskhozhdenie, L. Shepit'ko, after "Sotnikov" by V. Bykau, 1976.
TV series after V. Panova's "Sputniki."
Osvobozhdenie, Yu. Ozerov, 1970-1972, 5-film series:  Ognennaya duga;
Proryv; Napravlenie glavnogo udara; Bitva za Berlin; and Poslednij
shturm.  Many actors took part in this series including V. Shukshin.
Normandie-Neman, about the French air brigade fighting on the Soviet
front and receiving the second name "Neman" after the Belorussian
river, because of the role the brigade played in the 1944 battles in
Byelorussia, 1960.
Mashen'ka, Yu. Raizman, 1942 (note the release date -- film was a big
success down all over the country).
No greater love, Ona zashchishchaet rodinu, Ermler, 1943 (available at
Stanford U. library).
Sekretar' raikoma, Pyr'ev, 1942.
Boevye kinosborniki, assorted directors, assorted studios, 1942.
Oni srazhalis' za rodinu, 1975, S. Bondarchuk, after M. Sholokhov's
novel of the same name.  Another appearance for V. Shukshin.

Not Russian:
Ich war neunzehn (I was 19), DEFA studios, East Germany.  19-year-old
German boy who had relocated with his family to Russia comes back to
Germany as part of the Soviet troops.  Coming of age.  National
identity.

English-language documentaries:
Russian front, 1999.  Four-part box set.  VHS.  Amazon. $59.95.
Battle of Stalingrad, VHS, $18.49.  Amazon.  French documentary from
the 1960s with interviews of battle's survivors.

Books:
Film propaganda, Richard Taylor.
The Russian context, Genevra Gerhart.
Kino:  A history of Russian and Soviet film, J. Leyda.
Mass culture in Soviet Russia:  Tales, poems, songs, movies, plays and
folklore:  1917-1953.  J. van Eldern adn R. Stites.
The illustrated history of Soviet cinema, N. Zorkaya, 1989.

Article:
"Screening the past," Elena Stishova, Russian Life, Feb. 1997.

To order Russian films:
www.rbcvideo.com
www.amazon.com

Jonathan Gray
California State University, Sacramento
jflgray at pacbell.net

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