Documentary with beautiful black-and-white CinemaScope shots, which combined impressive scenes from a trip to the Ukraine with historical reminiscences. The censors criticized the "too narrow and too intimate view" of the Soviet Union; they didn't like the fact that bells were ringing, that a chauffeur from the film crew or an elderly peasant couple recalled the horrors of war or that Nikolai Gogol and Yevgeny Yevtushenko were quoted - that was considered backward-looking. Without the knowledge of the filmmakers Karlheinz Mund and Christian Lehmann, the film was shortened and mutilated; the seventeen minutes that were allowed for a public screening are only the torso of a large draft.
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Karlheinz Mund Director · Christian Lehmann Writer Barbara Masanetz-Mechelk Editor
First release July 25, 1969 · Produced in XG, Germany
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DEFA-Studio für Dokumentarfilme
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XG · Germany
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Original language
German
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German
Release dates
Germany · July 25, 1969
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No release date listed for United States.
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