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Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
...Accuse (Artkino-lrvin Shapiro) will not be shown in any of the theaters owned by Hays-office members; that organization disapproves of the film. Its alleged reasons: 1) some of the atrocity shots are shown more than once; 2) the word "damned" is used (it is attributed to the Germans in the line "Let them [Russians] bury their dead and be damned"). Wherever the picture is shown, however, moviegoers will see a powerful and in some respects perplexing record of history-in-the-making...