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A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Directed by Lewis Milestone. Starring Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Huston in the lead roles.
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A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Directed by Lewis Milestone. Starring Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Walter Huston in the lead roles.
Best Writing Original Screenplay | 1944
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1944
Best Art DirectionInterior Decoration BlackandWhite | 1944
Best Sound Recording | 1944
Best Effects Special Effects | 1944
Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture | 1944
This is one of the films deemed subversive" by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in October 1947, at the height of the "Red Scare" era typified by the tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The committee decided that, even though Russia was an ally of the US against Nazi Germany in World War II--when this film was made--the movie's sympathetic portrayal of Russian peasants and guerrillas who were fighting off Nazi forces was an endorsement of Communism.
Film debut of Farley Granger.
The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Anne Baxter, Walter Huston, Dean Jagger and Walter Brennan; and two Oscar nominees: Erich von Stroheim and Ann Harding.
In the severely re-edited, re-titled re-release, all references to the Russian nationality of the participants in the original story was either eliminated or obscured.
Original on-screen end credits erroneously reverse the roles of Robert Lowery and Gene O'Donnell. Lowery played the pilot and O'Donnell played the gunner.
"[last lines] [the villagers flee their burning town, torched as part of the Russians scorched earth defense] Marina Pavlova: Gone. Sophia Pavlova, Rodion's wife: There'll be another some day. Marina Pavlova: Yes. It will be different for us. Wars don't leave people as they were. All people will learn this and come to see that wars do not have to be. We'll make this the last war. We'll make a free world for all men. The earth belongs to us, the people, if we fight for it. And we will fight for it!"
"Dr. von Harden: [while Dr. Kurin is holding a gun on Richter and von Harden] I do not like much of what I've done for the past nine years. Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [after von Harden has given a blood transfusion from a Russian child to a German soldier] You do not like bleeding children? Dr. von Harden: Did the boy die? Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: [Contemtuously] You knew he would die! Dr. von Harden: They took too much blood. I'm sorry for that. Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: Yes, I nelieve you when you say you are sorry. Dr. von Harden: I'm sorry for many things, Dr. Kurin. Most of all that this is not the world we used to know. Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: I've heard about you... civilized men who are sorry. This... [Contemptuously gesturing toward Richter] Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: This kind is nothing! They will go when their bosses go, but men like you who have contempt for men like him! To me you are the real filth... men who do the work of Facists while they pretend to themselves that they are better than the beasts for whom they work... men who do murder while they laugh at them who order them to do it. It is men like you who have sold their people to men like him. [He points to Richter and shoots him at point blank range] Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin: You see, Dr. von Harden, you were wrong about many things. I AM a man who kills! [He shoots von Harden at point blank range too]"
