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Girl No. 217

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Girl No. 217
Film poster
Directed byMikhail Romm
Written byMikhail Romm
Yevgeny Gabrilovich
StarringYelena Kuzmina
Vladimir Balashov
Tatyana Barysheva
Heinrich Greif
CinematographyBoris Volchek
Era Savelyeva
Music byAram Khachaturian
Production
company
Release date
  • 9 April 1945 (1945-04-09)
Running time
99 min.
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian
Girl No. 217 (full film)

Girl No. 217 (Russian: Человек № 217, translit. Chelovek No. 217) is a 1945 Soviet war drama film directed by Mikhail Romm. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

An anti-Nazi film, it depicted a Russian girl enslaved to an inhuman German family.[2][3] She is even robbed of her name and forced to answer to "No. 217".[4] Subplots depict abuse directed at other POWs.[4] This reflected the use by Nazis of Ostarbeiter as slave labour, including as family servants.

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References

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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Girl No. 217". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen / Unwin. p. 379.
  3. ^ Anthony Rhodes, Propaganda: The Art of Persuasion: World War II, p. 219 (1976) Chelsea House Publishers, New York
  4. ^ a b "Girl No. 217"
  5. ^ "Человек №217 (1944)". KinoPoisk. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
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