General Information

Original Title

Ona zashchishchaet rodinu

Author/Creator

Ermler, Fridrikh, director.

Language

Russian. With dubbing in English

Published

Soviet Union : Central Art Film studios USSR, 1943.

Physical Description

VHS (74 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

This is the story of Vera Maretskaya who joins the Soviet war effort during the Second World War in order to take revenge on the Nazi forces who destoryed everything she cared for. She witnesses her husband being killed in combat, her toddler run over by a German tank, and her village is commandeered by Nazi forces. She organizes the surviving locals into a guerilla band; she locates the Nazis responsible for the atrocity and kills them in as brutal a manner as possible. The violence the killing scenes was so intense that Americans never saw a complete print of the film. The critics who gave positive reviews to the movie in US at the time of its release were some of the first targets of the Red Scare in 1950s.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

No Greater Love

Note

Duration: 01:14:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0874	Available	-	-