New Soviet Film Ranks With G
Girl 217" Portrays German
‘Hlousehold Under Nazis

ee By DAVID PLATT

«-,._- An average German household in the year 1942 is put under a Soviet microscope
in the. powerful-flm .Girl-No. 217, which will be showing at the Paradise Theatre in

; Vancouver from November 25 to December Ist. (1942 was the year Hitler’s armies had

oe knifed their: way to the outskirts of Stalingrad. Village after viilage was being robbed

Bet, ‘softs civilians. for servitude in ~*~ ~ ~~~

*~Germany. Among them are the

“two young Russian’ -women,

were a horse. Tanya, a socially- “Their problem is to kill you.
3 .... conscious, liberty-loving Soviet Yours to survive.’
-chanya,-and. Klava. It tools nine woman who had heen.-tauzht to a Se a8 - ~ “
edays and nights for ‘the cattle put the highest-value:on* human © ~~ OO a a
cars in which they’ were jam- life; is in bondage? *h~ oO sire AAS
Giese Sipe den ae ee © > age’ ta” people Vgocrwte. ssuthasgst
‘med with others to.reach Ger- 23) 1. Ca gS on T#= perverted Krauss family.
SEB ig IG yee, ee “who have the physical appear: : cg Seen) Thee
= aay.,1n all that time not one ance. of -human beings ‘but are _ 38 Skilfully dissected in Mik-
2 did the cists open the doors wrierace 0227 A A GSE, 9: has Ie Sa Sse os oe
‘of the; oa At the. slave mar- really wolves and pigs inside. niu en o Was eae S
kets, which rivalled - anything. Tanya is “forced ” to. clean the realism Hoinn, dtsededs setae, > =
Jena PEPE e Pemeror Cher’ eee . “ermans Who" are not apart the boorish Salisagé grin- As a prelude to herescape, Russian ‘slav
Seaeeyt, gos mitts aut is er ty dy'aos Gey Me amur wlohe foe bogs st ttce tO Roo Sloe cet
aye ee “a the. ae t hi $ iv ene is.fr the Soviet film, ‘“‘Girtl<N6®* =
gatheredto inspect the new ar--. night with back-breaking house- | ™#ted daughter, his prospective cruelly. Scene is.from the Soviet film at |

- tivals. ‘Tanya -was.-sold to a: ‘hold labor. Fortunateiy, the re- ind Geen 8 crippled in’ has its Canadian premiere at the Royal Alexandra |
Se, - belli eal : 1 as body, his half- Toronto next week:-The film ‘Is in’ Russian
et German grocer named Krauss:  bellious Russian girl : learns Wy ncisres Be + 7 . = : SE fe
ak : Paras mad Nazi son on furlough from English. sub: titles. «

for 15 miarks after. his fleshy from. the--Krauss janitor, - a the Russi: eras io i os : a :

: -i* = ey 38 ss he Russian front with his bes- ; spe = fowls ae ys
wife had looked her over from. noted Soviet scientist also in”. tial friend. He shows that the ; Bes avsee fob k Bee ee
head ‘to foot, as though she chains, to conserve: her energy. German‘ shopkeép ae iS do less off raped and butchered. Soviet - for Sevastopol. For i
sk I is ee - blood guilty than the banker or Women and.children and why- = eee yee Fe i
Junker. He shows a divided, de- she rebels against decapitating Pat T eae we
graded household alongside of a -chicken.- He cannot under- tértived’ Sn GEE - ?
‘which the abject Karamazovs in stand why his Soviet janitor ureqt me
_the famous Dostoevsky novel. prefers to shovel manure than Girl No. 217 sho: /
of czarist times are saints. “work ,as a‘scientist in a Hitler

Romm pictures Herr Krauss as laboratory.
a bullnecked brute who is kind
‘to his pet canary but ruthless e A. brilliant group
with Tanya. Krauss cannot

hy T . —HElena: Kuzmina a
understand why Tanya weeps logical Zaichikoy as the i
bitter tears at the thought of RoM™ shows the pathologica

Vladislovsky and 1 |
working for Germans. He can- ho es Pspokage ne aad as Mr.-and Mrs. fl
not understand why she will - : ‘ brought us the a
not wash bloody clothes taken 2" middle-class under Hitler. ash

y He exposes the savage treat- truth about the dis.
ment of Soviet prisoners in Man and his slave Be
solitary celis just big enough to workmanlike directi’
hold one person in an upright hail Romm, well.
position. The hot-boxes used to Lenin in October, L
punish workers on chain and The Thirteen, -
gangs in the south are palaces reat reputation a: in
compared to these Nazi hell. ™an_ and documer };
holes. He bares the warped soul - Stirring music sos
of the stormtrooper in scenes 2nder Khatchaturia
that probe deeper into his na- 2” article by itself
ture than any other film within The world needs
recent memory. Romm_ says films to keep une
they must all answer for their memory. of “Nazi bi
crimes, the ordinary German as may be’ a long time ;
well as the Party sadist. “Let will get one as cour 4.
them answer for Leningrad and as deep as Girl No. :!

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| UNANIMOUS

RUSSIA ...

MUSIC ADDS TREMENDOUSLY.”
HELEN ALLEN, EVG. TELEGRAM.

? “ONE OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE RUS-
SIAN FILMS. EXCITING—ABSORBING.*
JACK KARR, DAILY STAR.

“TIMELY, IMPRESSIVE *

ROLY YOUNG, GLOBE & MAIL.

“MUSIC SKILLFULLY CREATIVE.”
AUGUSTUS BRIDLE. DAILY STAR.

‘GRE. |
NUMBER 24'°7

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“As greedy, bestial and murderous a crew as has come
to the screen in some time,” says the New York Times
of these ordinary Germans who typify their nation in “Girl
No. 217,” the first Soviet wartime fjim of life in Germany.
“Girl No. 217” has won more praise from the American
press than any Soviet film in a decade. :---

Elena Kuzmina, star of
“Girl No. 217” who ‘‘gives
a magnificent performance
in a film which has the depth
sei’ —_ and realism of great motion
- Meet Grocer Krausss and his wife, “‘good”’ Germans picture artistry” according to
who bought..“‘Girl .No.. 217”. foz 15 marks in the Berlin the New York Tribune.
Slavemarket. Directed -by. Mikhail Romm, director of Here “Girl = No. 217”
“Lenin in October’? and ‘‘The Thirteen,”. Girl No.-217 mourns the death of a fel-
has an original musical-score' by Alexander Khatchaturian, low -slave who died of ex-

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