Journey Back to Youth
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| Directed by | Alexander Gutman Sergei Litviakov |
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| Country | Russia |
Journey Back to Youth (Template:Lang-ru, Puteshestvie v yunost)[1] is a 2001 documentary film by Russian film makers Alexander Gutman and Sergei Litviakov. The film is an interview of four German women who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia placed into a Soviet labor camp at the end of World War II according to Stalin's decisions about about mobilization of Germans for reconstruction works in the USSR.
The film won the Platinum Award at the 34th International Independent Film Festival (Worldfest) in Houston, TX in 2001 and the "Gold Camera Award" at the US International Film and Video Festival in 2001.[2]
Film history
The film maker, Gutman, said that the he got the idea for the film when he learned that the Heinrich Böll Foundation funded a monument in Petrozavodsk, Karelia at the graveyard of German women who died in the local GULAG camp.[3]
References
- ^ "Russia - A Journey Back to Youth", film website
- ^ Brief review of the movie
- ^ "За такое кино надо убивать" (retrievend August 11, 2014)
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