Grigori ALEXANDROV
Григорий АЛЕКСАНДРОВ
Grigori ALEXANDROV
USSR, 1949, 104mn 
Black and white, fiction
Meeting on the Elba
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Встреча на Эльбе

 

 Rencontre sur l'Elbe

 Vstrecha na Elbe

 
Directed by : Grigori ALEXANDROV (Григорий АЛЕКСАНДРОВ)
Writing credits : Pyotr RYZHEI (Пётр РЫЖЕЙ), Lev SHENIN (Лев ШЕЙНИН), Leonid TUBELSKY (Леонид ТУБЕЛЬСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Boris ANDREYEV (Борис АНДРЕЕВ)
Khari AVEN (Харий АВЕН)
Vladlen DAVYDOV (Владлен ДАВЫДОВ)
Andrey FAIT (Андрей ФАЙТ)
Erast GARIN (Эраст ГАРИН)
Ivan LIUBEZNOV (Иван ЛЮБЕЗНОВ)
Konstantin NASONOV (Константин НАССОНОВ)
Mikhail NAZVANOV (Михаил НАЗВАНОВ)
Liubov ORLOVA (Любовь ОРЛОВА)
Faina RANEVSKAIA (Фаина РАНЕВСКАЯ)
 
Cinematography : Nikolay RENKOV (Николай РЕНКОВ), Eduard TISSE (Эдуард ТИССЭ)
Production design : Aleksey UTKIN (Алексей УТКИН)
Music : Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (Дмитрий ШОСТАКОВИЧ)
Sound : Sergey MINRVIN (Сергей МИНЕРВИН)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 24,2 millions of spectators
Restauration : Mosfilm (1965)
Release date in Russia : 16/03/1949
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Prix au Festival international de Bratislava en 1949
Prix au Festival international de Gotvaldov en 1949
Prix au festival de Marianske Lazne en 1950
Prix Staline, 1ère catégorie en 1950 pour Grigori ALEXANDROV, Mikhaïl NAZVANOV, Lioubov ORLOVA et Edouard TISSÉ

Plot synopsis
The film created in the years of «cold war» presents the official state ideology of those years. The last days of World War II. The Soviet army soldiers and the Americans-allies meet on the bank of the Elba dividing the German city Altershtadt. General Mac-Dermot tries to get patents of optic plants from professor Ditrikh, the burgomaster of the Soviet area of the city. With the help of Sherwood, an American spy, the patents stolen from the safe fall into the hands of fascist Shrank. But Shrank fails to hand them over to Mac-Dermot, as the Russian soldiers stop him at the border of the two areas. Ditrikh who is deceived by the Americans and has escaped to the western bank returns to the Soviet area to build the new Germany.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Cinematic Cold War : The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds, Denise YOUNGBLOOD, Tony SHAW, University Press of Kansas, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2006
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1991
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1990

Photos and videos
 
Film: Film sans sous-titres