“Sunday in Hell” - a Soviet film of 1987, filmed at the Lithuanian Film Studio by director Vytautas Zalakyavichus .
Sunday in hell another name "Weekend in Hell" | |
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Genre | drama, war film |
Producer | Vytautas Zhalakyavichyus , Almantas Grikyavichyus , Avtandil Kvirikashvili |
Author script | Vytautas Zhalakyavichyus |
Operator | Donatas Pechura |
Composer | Juozas Širvinskas |
Film company | Lithuanian film studio |
Duration | 98 min. |
A country | the USSR |
Year | 1987 |
IMDb | ID 0287104 |
Story
The war , the summer of 1944, the Baltic. From the Nazi concentration camp , two escape - Lithuanian and Russian. Fleeing from the chase, they fall into the SS recreation area - the beach on the Baltic coast. Realizing that they will not be able to go unnoticed during the day, they throw off camp rags and dissolve among the rest of the German officers - under the terrible threat of being exposed they will have to stay here until dark.
The situation is complicated by the fact that only the Lithuanian speaks German, the Russian knows only a few phrases.
For some time, the recent suicide bombers are forgotten: the sun, the forest, the splashing of the sea ... and the Nazis, without form or insignia; they look like ordinary guys who picked up girls and girls on the weekend of schnapps . Only summer is the last summer of the war they have clearly lost. Therefore, there is no fun at this picnic: in the eyes of the German general and his subordinates - only doom, fatigue and hopelessness. Their rest is a feast during the plague. Sex - and he is deprived of eroticism. And two fugitives, who have not seen food, alcohol and women for a long time, try not to give themselves away, with a terrible effort of will suppressing not so much fear as a rejection of human dignity in the camp.
The attack of Soviet aviation in a matter of minutes turns the beach into hell completely. The fugitives, disguised as German officers, leave from there, but soon stumble upon partisans ...
Cast
- Vladimir Bogin - Denis, Soviet sailor, prisoner of a concentration camp
- Vidas Petkevicius - Lithuanian teacher, concentration camp prisoner
- Vytautas Paukshte - Melders, German officer
- Ingeborg Dapkunayte - Ingeborg
- Algirdas Paulavicius - Captain Esser, Commander of the Coastal Battery
- Juozas Budraitis - German General
- Uldis Vazdiks - “Cannibal”, the head of the concentration camp
- Irena Kuksenayte - “Cannibal”, mistress of the concentration camp chief
- Gediminas Storpirshtis - the rapist, the young German from the Hitler Youth
- Saulius Balandis - Friedrich, Adjutant General
- Leonardas Zeljus - hairdresser
- Alexander Kuzin - commander of the Russian squadron
- Algimantas Masiulis - episode
Criticism
Film critic Lyubov Arkus , reviewing the work of the scriptwriter and director of the film Vytautas Zalakyavichyus , noted that he had returned to the military theme for the first time since the 1960s, and comparing the 1987 film Sunday in Hell with his 1965 film Nobody wanted to die "Noted: [1]
“ Nobody wanted to die, ” he took off without the style and plot vignettes of the kind that twenty years later decorated another Lithuanian story - “Weekend in Hell”, the film is completely ruthless, melted down, in accordance with the mood that dominated this moment by the author, in a cold flame of misanthropy.
Film critic Alexander Kolbovsky in 1990 in an article devoted to the work of actress Ingeborgi Dapkunayte called her role in the film one of her three best roles: [2]
... Or her other work - a strange German girl, the bishop's daughter, who became a whore, from V. Zhalakyavichyus's painting “Sunday in Hell”. Unexpectedly, a small role is consonant with the fate of a whole generation - not even lost, but destroyed by war. Even if not physically destroyed - a spiritually killed generation without a present and without a future. We are talking about women's fate, about which we had never thought about before: we had our great sacrifices, we had no time for broken women's lives on the other side of the front ... German Frau and Fraulein from our past films about fascism were equally patriotic and one-dimensional . I do not blame me for this - probably the time has come to see the tragedy in the place where the accusatory farce was seen before.
- film critic Alexander Kolbovsky , magazine " Soviet screen ", 1990
Awards
- Jury Prize at the XXI All-Union Film Festival (VKF) , 1988, Baku.
Notes
- ↑ Leonid Popov, Lyubov Arkus - The Newest History of Russian Cinema: 1992-1996 - SEANS, 2002 - p. 744
- ↑ Kolbovsky A. - Gorodanka / / Soviet screen. 1990. № 8.
Literature
- Berzhinis S. - Weekend in Hell (about the film of the same name) // Kino (Vilnius), No. 11, 1986
- Sunday Day in Hell (Feature film of the Lithuanian film studio, author of the script and dir. Vytautas Zhalakyavichus) // Cinema Hall Satellite - 1988. - № 12. p. 6
- Weekend in Hell (with a brief reference about the author) // Film scenarios - 1986.— № 1 - pp. 79-103
Links
- Weekend in Hell on the Internet Movie Database