Girl No. 217

Girl No. 217 (Russian: Человек № 217, translit. Chelovek No. 217) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Romm. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Girl No. 217
Film poster
Directed byMikhail Romm
Written byMikhail Romm
Yevgeny Gabrilovich
StarringYelena Kuzmina
Vladimir Balashov
Tatyana Barysheva
Heinrich Greif
Music byAram Khachaturian
CinematographyBoris Volchek
Era Savelyeva
Production
company
Release date
  • 9 April 1945 (1945-04-09)
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

An anti-Nazi film, it depicted a Russian girl enslaved to an inhuman German family.[2][3] She is even robbed of her name and forced to answer to "No. 217".[4] Subplots depict abuse directed at other POWs.[4] This reflected the use by Nazis of OST-Arbeiter as slave labour, including as family servants.

Cast
  • Yelena Kuzmina as Tanya Krylova - Nr. 217
  • Vladimir Balashov as Max Krauss
  • Tatyana Barysheva as Greta Krauss
  • Heinrich Greif as Kurt Kahger
  • Anastasiya Lissianskaya as Klava Vasilyeva
  • Grigory Mikhaylov as Prisoner Nr. 225
  • Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lotta Krauss
  • Peter Suthanov as Rudolph Peschke
  • Vasili Zajchikov as Scientist

References
  1. "Festival de Cannes: Girl No. 217". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
  2. Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.
  3. Anthony Rhodes, Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II, p219 1976, Chelsea House Publishers, New York
  4. "Girl No. 217"


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