Peat-Bog Soldiers

1938 DramaWar 69 minutes Directed by Aleksandr Macheret

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About Peat-Bog Soldiers

In a Nazi camp in the 1930s, guards try to break Communist prisoners with peat-bog labor, hunger, and abuse. The prisoners stay together and organize inside the camp.

Cast & crew

More about Peat-Bog Soldiers

Aleksandr Macheret directed it. Yury Olesha wrote it. Oleg Zhakov is billed. Lev Shvarts wrote the music. Mosfilm released it on 25 November 1938, with another date of 19 March 1939. It runs 69 minutes. The Russian title is Болотные солдаты.

Themes

  • Peat-bog labor
  • Guards and hunger
  • Prisoners who organize
  • Macheret
  • Olesha
  • concentration camp
  • Oleg Zhakov

Look

Yevgeni Andrikanis photographed the bog and the camp.

Music

Lev Shvarts wrote the music.

Notes

  • The title is the name of the prisoners' song, Die Moorsoldaten.
  • Olesha wrote the script.
  • A second release date on the record is 19 March 1939.

Scenes

  • Guards send the prisoners into the bog.
  • The men keep an organization going inside the camp.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1938 Болотные солдаты.webm)

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