The Deserter (1933 film)

The Deserter
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Written by Nina Agadzhanova
M. Krasnostavsky
Aleksandr Lazebnikov
Starring Boris Livanov
Music by Yuri Shaporin
Cinematography Anatoli Golovnya
Production
company
Release dates
 19 September 1933
Running time
 103 minutes (2,818 meters)
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

The Deserter (Russian: Дезертир, Dezertir) is a 1933 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin.

Synopsis

Karl Renn, a Hamburg shipyard worker, is a member of the Communist Party of Germany and is commissioned by the USSR to organize a general strike and exert pressure on employers. When the strike comes, several fights take place with the police. After a month of strike, many workers are already so exhausted that they become strike-breakers. There arises an armed conflict that even Karl's wife goes to; but he stays at home because of his cowardice. Nevertheless, as a delegate of the party, he is sent together with four comrades to a meeting in the Soviet Union. He stays there, works in a blast furnace and is enthusiastic about the communist system. After a few weeks the news reaches him that his Party Chief in Hamburg had been slain. He then travels back to Germany to continue the struggle of the workers.

Reception

Pudovkin again demonstrates his ability to hold screen audiences, but be could have reduced the running time of "Deserter" by about fifteen minutes without lessening its value.
— New York Times

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