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Black Rusks (1972)

Black Rusks (1972)

Drama
Release Date: 1972, March 15
Directors: Herbert Rappaport
Countries: Soviet Union, East Germany
Production: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Lenfilm
Cast: Rüdiger Joswig, Natalya Varley, Günter Schubert, Nikolai Merzlikin, Johannes Knittel, Rolf Herricht, Harry Hindemith

Overview:

The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.