Girl No. 217 | |
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Directed by | Mikhail Romm |
Written by | Mikhail Romm Yevgeny Gabrilovich |
Starring | Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina |
Music by | Aram Khachaturian |
Cinematography | Boris Volchek Era Savelyeva |
Studio | Mosfilm |
Release date(s) | 9 April 1945 |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
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]
An anti-Nazi film, it depicted a Russian girl enslaved to an inhuman German family.[2] She is even robbed of her name and forced to answer to "No. 217".[3] Subplots depict abuse directed at other POWs.[3] This reflected the use by Nazis of OST-Arbeiter as slave labor, including as family servants.