Deserter
About Deserter
In a foreign port strike, the young worker Karl Renn leaves the picket line and doubts the tactics used at home. A party leader sends him to the Soviet Union as a delegate instead of casting him out.
Cast & crew
More about Deserter
Vsevolod Pudovkin's first sound film. Nina Agadzhanova-Shutko and Aleksandr Lazebnikov wrote it. Anatoli Golovnya and Yuly Fogelman photographed it. Yuri Shaporin wrote the music. The story is set in Hamburg. Shooting used Moscow. It was released on September 19, 1933. Wikidata gives 95 minutes. Boris Livanov, Dmitri Konsovsky, Tamara Makarova, and Sergei Gerasimov are billed. The British Board of Film Censors refused it, then passed it with an A certificate in 1941. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Making
Pudovkin made his first talkie at Mezhrabpom, with the Hamburg strike staged in Moscow.
Look
Anatoli Golovnya and Yuly Fogelman shot the picket and the Moscow sets standing in for Hamburg.
Music
Yuri Shaporin wrote the music. It is Pudovkin's first sound film.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Russian title is Dezertir.
- The desertion is from a picket, not from an army.
- Aleksandr Chistyakov and Vasiliy Kovrigin are billed.
- The British ban lasted until the 1941 A certificate.
Scenes
- Renn steps off the picket line.
- He is sent to the Soviet Union as a delegate.
