3-10 Sep ‘23
 
Rus

Triumph Over Violence (1965)

Triumph Over Violence
18+
  • Country:

    USSR

  • Duration:

    130 min

  • Program:

    Retrospective, 5th MJFF

  • Type:

    Narrative, Feature

  • Genre:

    history, war

  • Director:

    Mikhail Romm

  • Cast:

    Mikhail Romm, Marlene Dietrich, Josef Goebbels, Jukichi Uno

About film

Mikhail Romm’s documentary Triumph Over Violence, in which the director also took the role of a narrator, was released in 1965 and was awarded the Golden Dove at the 8th Dok Leipzig documentary festival. The film is an original investigation, an attempt to understand the rise of Fascism. To this day, this film remains the most powerful anti-war and anti-Fascist Russian film. This is a reflection on the nature and evolution of Fascism, on the reasons why it appeared in Germany, a country that has gifted the world with such cultural figures as Goethe and Mann. How could odious and ignorant people have come to power and blazed through everything in their treacherous paths? The film uses documents from German archives, shots that were made by Hitler’s personal photographer, and footage from concentration camps where thousands of people were tortured and destroyed by the Nazis.

Rewards and nominations

  • VIII International Documentary Film Festival in Leipzig 1965 - Golden Dove Prize and Film Critics Prize
  • All-Union Film Festival 1965 - Special Jury Prize for the Director for the Documentary Film Section

Director

Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Arts and Technology as a sculptor (1925), where he studied under Anna Golubkina. Worked as a sculptor and interpreter. In 1928-30 he worked at Institute for extra-scholastic studies as researcher on the theory of Cinematography. From 1931 he worked at Mosfilm Studios, where he made his first film "Pyshka" (1934). During the years of "Great Terror" under Joseph Stalin Romm made two features and a documentary about Lenin. In the following years Romm made his "Nine Days in One Year" (1962) and "Tiumph over violence" (1965).

Along with
Dispute. «Triumph Over Violence» now
  • Category:

    Educational

  • Speaker:

    Nikolai Svanidze, Vsevolod Chaplin, Mikhail Gusman ets.

Along with
Dispute. «Triumph Over Violence» now
  • Category:

    Educational

  • Speaker:

    Nikolai Svanidze, Vsevolod Chaplin, Mikhail Gusman ets.

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Director

Mikhail Romm
Mikhail Romm was born in 1901, into a Russian-Jewish family, in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Arts and Technology as a sculptor (1925), where he studied under Anna Golubkina. Worked as a sculptor and interpreter. In 1928-30 he worked at Institute for extra-scholastic studies as researcher on the theory of Cinematography. From 1931 he worked at Mosfilm Studios, where he made his first film "Pyshka" (1934). During the years of "Great Terror" under Joseph Stalin Romm made two features and a documentary about Lenin. In the following years Romm made his "Nine Days in One Year" (1962) and "Tiumph over violence" (1965).