Friedrich ERMLER
Фридрих ЭРМЛЕР
Friedrich ERMLER
USSR, 1965, 99mn 
Black and white, documentary
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 Facing the Judgment of History

 Devant le tribunal de l'histoire

 
Directed by : Friedrich ERMLER (Фридрих ЭРМЛЕР)
Writing credits : Mikhail BLEIMAN (Михаил БЛЕЙМАН), Vladimir VAYNSTOCK VAYNSHTOCK (Владимир ВАЙНШТОК)
Cinematography : Mikhail MAGID (Михаил МАГИД), Lev SOKOLSKY (Лев СОКОЛЬСКИЙ)
Production design : Aleksandr BLEK (Александр БЛЭК)
Music : Sergey SLONIMSKY (Сергей СЛОНИМСКИЙ)
Release Date in Russia : 20/11/1965
 

Plot synopsis
Extended interview with Vasili Shulgin, a right wing Russian politician and member of the pre-revolutionary parliament in Russia. Shulgin was a political adviser to the Whites during the civil war, and then to General Vlasov, who set up an anti-Soviet military force during the Second World War. Shulgin was captured by Soviet forces in 1945, and spent the next couple of decades in prison.
 

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Что посмотреть: Субъективные списки стоящих фильмов от редакции «Синема Рутин» (ч.1) [[Films du Monde recommandés par la revue Cinema Routine, 1ère partie], Cinema Routine, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival : IDFA, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2016
- Zoom arrière. Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Toulouse (France), 2015
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2012
- États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas (France), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2003

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