[Amateur photographer]

Resource Information

The work [Amateur photographer] represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

[Amateur photographer]

Contributor

• Roshalʹ, L., (Lev)
• First Run/Icarus Films
• First Run/Icarus Films
• Granat Film Studio
• Russia (Federation), Ministerstvo kulʹtury
• Russia (Federation), Ministerstvo kulʹtury
• Dorenwendt, Thomas
• Gedrovich, Irina,
• Gedrovich, Irina,
• Hille, Stephan
• Reznikov, Efim,
• Reznikov, Efim,
• Roshalʹ, L., (Lev)

Director

• Gedrovich, Irina,
• Gedrovich, Irina,

Narrator

• Hille, Stephan
• Dorenwendt, Thomas

Producer

• Reznikov, Efim,
• Reznikov, Efim,

Subject

• Illustrated works
• Atrocities
• DVD -Video discs
• Diaries
• Diaries
• Diaries
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Eastern Front (World War (1939-1945))
• Experimental films
• Experimental films
• Experimental films
• German Occupation of Soviet Union (1941-1944)
• Germany
• Historical films
• Historical films
• Historical films
• History
• Illustrated works
• 1939-1945
• M., Gerhard, 1919-1952
• M., Gerhard, 1919-1952 -- Diaries
• M., Gerhard, 1919-1952 -- Diaries
• M., Gerhard, 1919-1952 -- Photograph collections
• M., Gerhard, 1919-1952 -- Photograph collections
• Military campaigns
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives
• Pictorial works
• Soldiers
• Soldiers -- Germany -- Diaries
• Soldiers -- Germany -- Diaries
• Soviet Union
• Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944 -- Pictorial works
• Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944 -- Pictorial works
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• War films
• War films
• War films
• World War (1939-1945)
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Pictorial works
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Pictorial works
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front -- Pictorial works
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Eastern Front -- Pictorial works
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Pictorial works
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Soviet Union -- Pictorial works

Genre

• Diaries
• DVD -Video discs
• Documentary films
• Experimental films
• Historical films
• History
• War films
• Personal narratives
• Personal narratives, German
• Pictorial works
• Video recordings
• Illustrated works

Language

• ger
• eng
• ger

Summary

Using popular songs of the day and excerpts from the diary kept by a German soldier, this film captures not only the events of WWII, but also the chronicle of a life in the army in words and pictures. Gerhard M., amateur photographer, took his camera everywhere his unit was posted on the Eastern Front. He took both snapshots and carefully composed portraits, and subjects included his fellow soldiers, Soviet prisoners, civilian victims of the war, the Germany army's expropriation of livestock and other supplies, and a temporary leave spent happily in Berlin with his fiancée. After the war, he settled in East Berlin, and in 1952, his scrapbook of personal souvenirs became legal evidence for a Soviet court; he was executed by firing squad

Cataloging source

IUL

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Ilia Melikhov ; music, Evgeniy Kadimsky ; editor, Sergey Novikov ; consultants, Vladimir Magidov, Dmitriy Khokhlov ; translation, Gillian McCormack

Language note

Narration in German and English; opening credits in Russian with English subtitles

PerformerNote

German narration, Stephan Hille; English narration, Thomas Dorenwendt

Runtime

26

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action