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Black Rusks

Black Rusks

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 15, 1972

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Drama

User Score

80%

Original Title

Schwarzer Zwieback

Production Companies

DEFA, Lenfilm

Director

Gerbert Rappaport

Description

The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.