Black Rusks
Schwarzer Zwieback
Release: 1972-03-15
·Runtime: 84m
·★ 8.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
East Germany
Soviet Union
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Lenfilm
Cast
Rüdiger Joswig
as Kurt
Harry Hindemith
as Neubert
Vladimir Tatosov
Viktor Uralsky
Bruno O'Ya
Aleksandr Lazarev
Klaus Manchen
Hans-Dieter Schlegel
Natalya Varley
as Tanja
Nikolai Merzlikin
as Woronin
Yuriy Kayurov
Artyom Karapetyan
Yuri Medvedev
Rolf Herricht
as Rüschi
Günter Schubert
as Grassmann
Fred Delmare
Vladimir Antonik
