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Girl No. 217
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Wikipedia article
'Girl No. 217' (, translit. Chelovek No. 217) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Romm. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
An anti-Nazi film, it depicted a Russian girl enslaved to an inhuman German family.Anthony Rhodes, 'Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II', p219 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York She is even robbed of her name and forced to answer to "No. 217"."[http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film633871.html Girl No. 217]" Subplots depict abuse directed at other POWs. This reflected the use by Nazis of OST-Arbeiter as slave labour, including as family servants.
Cast
* Yelena Kuzmina as Tanya Krylova - Nr. 217
* Vladimir Balashov as Max Krauss
* Tatyana Barysheva as Greta Krauss
* Heinrich Greif as Kurt Kahger
* Anastasiya Lissianskaya as Klava Vasilyeva
* Grigory Mikhaylov as Prisoner Nr. 225
* Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lotta Krauss
* Peter Suthanov as Rudolph Peschke
* Vasili Zajchikov as Scientist
References
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