Trinadtsat
The Thirteen
Red Army commander Ivan Zhuravlev accompanies ten honourably discharged
soldiers on their way to the city. In the middle of the Karakum Desert they stumble upon a hidden well located near an ancient
tomb. They also find brand-new weapons belonging to Shirmat Khan and his anti-Bolshevik bandits, the so-called ‚basmachi‘.
Zhuravlev gives orders to wait for Shirmat Khan and fight him until regular Red Army troops arrive. The Thirteen is one of
the most remarkable Civil War thrillers in Soviet cinema. Dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Red Army,
its story was inspired by John Ford’s The Lost Patrol (1934). The film’s well-paced adventure plot and psychological plausibility
meet the highest international standards. (Peter Rollberg; Adapted from Directory of World Cinema: Russia, with the kind permission
of Intellect Books)
Director's Biography
Mikhail Romm, 1901-1971, Russland. Arbeitete als Bildhauer
und diente in der Roten Armee. Ab 1928 begann er sich dem Film zuzuwenden. Er unterrichtete bekannte Regisseure, wie zum Beispiel
Andrei Tarkovsky und Nikita Mikhalkov. Sein bekanntester Film ist Mechta (Dream, 1941).
Filme (Auswahl): Boule de Suif (1934), The Thirteen (1936), Lenin in October (1937), Mechta (Dream, 1941), The Russian Question (1948), Admiral Ushakov (1953), Nine Days in One Year (1962)
Filme (Auswahl): Boule de Suif (1934), The Thirteen (1936), Lenin in October (1937), Mechta (Dream, 1941), The Russian Question (1948), Admiral Ushakov (1953), Nine Days in One Year (1962)
Special 2011
Mikhail
Romm
USSR 1936
black & white
87 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Iosif Prut, Mikhail Romm
Cinematography
Boris Volchek
Editing Tatyana
Likhachyova
Music Anatoly
Aleksandrov
With Ivan Novoseltsev, Elena Kuzmina,
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Andrei Fait