Road to Life (Russian: Педагогическая поэма, translit. Pedagogicheskaya poema) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Maslyukov and Mechislava Mayevskaya and based on the book by Anton Makarenko. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
, 1h30 Réalisé parÉdouard Tissé OrigineRussie GenresDrame, Guerre ThèmesPolitique, Politique ActeursVladimir Yemelyanov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Valentina Serova, Lidiya Sukharevskaya Note70% Les événements se déroulent dans la forteresse de Brest-Litovsk lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, au moment où les troupes allemandes envahirent l'Union soviétique, au mois de juin 1941. Au début, le film montre le quotidien des habitants de la garnison, les militaires et leurs familles. Tous font les projets d'avenir et essayent de faire abstraction de ce qu'ils perçoivent comme la provocation des allemands. Mais, un jour, les premiers obus atteignent la forteresse, puis l'assaut commence. Personne n'est au courant du fait que la ligne du front recule. Tous restent sur leurs positions et combattent, en attendant le renfort qui ne viendra jamais, jusqu'à ce que la situation devient désespérée.
, 1h54 Réalisé parKonrad Wolf GenresDrame ActeursGünther Simon, Erwin Geschonneck, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Manja Behrens, Viktor Avdyushko, Brigitte Krause Note63% 1950. After being arrested in a police raid, the two young prostitutes Lotte and Emmi are sent to the mines in Wismut. There, Germans and Soviets work together to extract Uranium for the use of the USSR. Two men fall in love with Lotte: the director Beier, a former SS man who tries to compensate for his past with hard work, and the Soviet engineer Sergei, whose wife was murdered by the Germans in the war. In the meantime, Jupp König, a veteran communist whom Emmi once harbored from the Gestapo, leads the miners as they attempt to replace their harsh and incompetent party boss, Weihrauch. Eventually, König is given Weihrauch's office. Lotte marries Beier, although she later realizes that she loves Sergei. When her husband is badly injured in an accident, he confides to the Soviet engineer that soldiers from his battalion murdered the latter's wife; Sergei replies that he knew it all along. Lotte and her baby son leave the mines and return to Berlin.