Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #1

1941 War 32 minutes Directed by Yevgeniy Nekrasov

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About Collection of Films for the Armed Forces #1

Three shorts were issued for Soviet troops. In Meeting with Maxim, the hero of The Vyborg Side steps off the screen and tells the audience to go to the front. In A Dream in the Hand, Hitler dreams of the Teutonic knights, of Napoleon, and of the German occupiers of 1918. In Three in a Funnel, a nurse in a shell hole bandages a wounded Red Army soldier and then a wounded German who falls in with them.

Cast & crew

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Sergei Gerasimov is credited as director. Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Leonid Lench, and Boris Laskin are among the writers. Boris Chirkov plays Maxim. Nikolay Kryukov wrote the music. Lenfilm, Mosfilm, and Soyuzdetfilm made it in 1941. It runs 32 minutes. The Russian title is Боевой киносборник № 1.

Themes

  • A film hero who steps into the hall
  • Hitler's bad dream
  • A shell hole with three people
  • Boris Chirkov
  • Maxim
  • Battle Film Collection
  • 1941

Look

Vladimir Yakovlev, Yuly Fogelman, and Naum Naumov-Strazh photographed the three shorts.

Music

Nikolay Kryukov wrote the music.

Notes

  • Pyotr Repnin plays Hitler in the dream. Vladimir Kantsel plays Napoleon.
  • Maxim's appeal follows the last shots of The Vyborg Side.
  • The nurse treats both wounded men in the same crater.

Scenes

  • Maxim walks out of The Vyborg Side and addresses the seats.
  • Hitler dreams of Napoleon and of 1918.
  • The nurse bandages the German who drops into the crater.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1941 Боевой киносборник №1.webm)