The Murderers Are Coming
About The Murderers Are Coming
Pudovkin and Yuri Tarich draw several strands from Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich. Drunken soldiers, talking of national unity, panic at an old man in a window and shoot him. A woman receives a Winter Relief "gift from the Führer" of potatoes, apples, and five marks, after she herself had given twice that. Her pregnant daughter rejects the gesture. Soviet censors did not allow the film to be shown.
Cast & crew
More about The Murderers Are Coming
Manuel Bolshintsov, Bertolt Brecht, and Pudovkin are the writers on Wikidata. Boris Volchek and Era Savelyeva photographed it, and Nikolay Kryukov composed the score, for a 64-minute 1942 film. It was Sofya Magarill's last screen performance.
Themes
Background
Brecht's 1938 sketches of Nazi Germany were filmed in the Soviet Union in 1942 and then held back by the censors.
Look
Boris Volchek and Era Savelyeva photographed the Mosfilm and Kazakhfilm production.
Music
Nikolay Kryukov is the composer on Wikidata.
Preservation
Soviet censors did not allow the film to be screened.
Notes
- Mikhail Astangov and Boris Blinov lead the Wikidata cast.
- The English page calls the structure a picture of "two Germanys.
- Wikipedia lists several suggested reasons for the ban and does not settle on one.
- The source play dates from 1938.
Scenes
- Soldiers shoot an old man who looks out a window, then run.
- A Winter Relief parcel of potatoes, apples, and five marks is handed to a woman who had donated more.
Influenced by
- Bertolt Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (1938)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1942 Убийцы выходят на дорогу.webm)
