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It Was in May (TV)

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Original title: Byl mesyats may
Year: 1970
Running time: 115 min.
Country: Soviet Union (USSR)
Director: Marlen Khutsiev
Screenwriter: Grigori Baklanov
Cast: Aleksandr Arzhilovsky, Pyotr Todorovskiy, Sergey Shakurov, Viktor Uralsky, Igor Klass, Vaclovas Bledis, Eugenija Pleskyte
Cinematography: Vladimir Osherov
Producer: Studio Ekran
Genre: Drama. War | II World War. Holocaust. TV Movie
Synopsis: 25 years after the end of the war, Khutsiev returns to the period immediately following it, shifting the location to Germany in the process. A few days after the unconditional surrender of German troops, a group of Soviet soldiers is billeted at a farmyard which the war somehow never seems to have reached. This apparently peaceful picture is eerily undermined when the Red Army soldiers are confronted with the full extent of Nazi terror in the liberated concentration camps. An unusual, impressive anti-war film within the context of the Soviet engagement with the Second World War, framed by documentary footage of the last days of war in and around Berlin as well as of the Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps.

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It Was in May (TV)

1970

Marlen Khutsiev