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The Night That
Lasted 641 Days
Dmitry Lavrinenko / Russland /2004 / 56 Min
Produktion/Production, Weltvertrieb/World Sales:
Lavrinenko Production
3-th Priadilnaia str. 17,5
Moskau
Russland
Tel.: +7 095 1 65 42 67
dmau@zmail.ru
After Kiev, Kharkov (Kharkiv in Ukranian) is Ukraine's second
biggest city and was contested several times during the Second
World War. The German Wehrmacht occupied the city on 24. October
1941 and fought off Red Army counter-attacks in the winter
of 1941-42 and again in May 1942. After the German defeat
at Stalingrad, Soviet troops were able to take the city from
the Wehrmacht on 17. February 1943, but then it was re-captured
by the Germans on 14. March 1943. Kharkov's final liberation
by the Red Army took place on 23. August 1943.
Elena Alexandrovna
Chernay lived with her two sons in Kharkov throughout the
whole occupation --641 days. She tells about the Wehrmacht's
invasion, their "measures for atonement" "
250 hanged from balconies and trees around the whole city
to avenge a partisan attack ", about everyday life during
the occupation, about the battles until the liberation in
1943.
The film connects
Chernay's off-voice with rarely shown film material from the
Russian archives (originally German and Soviet) and thereby
shows an impressive picture of the German war of extermination
against the Soviet Union, to which more than 20 million fell
victim.
Biography:
Dmitry Lavrinenko was born in 1971 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. In
2002, he graduated from the Moscow film school. The Night
That Lasted 641 Days is his first full-length documentary
film.
Filmography:
1/125 of Alexanders Bobrovsky (2002), All the World's Gold
(2002), Project NEXT (2003), Projections of Avant-guarde (2004),
The Night That Lasted 641 Days (2004), The Unbidden Visitor
(2005)
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