Friesennot is a 1935 German film directed by Peter Hagen.
The film is also known as Dorf im roten Sturm (German reissue title) and Frisions in Distress (USA).
Communists authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union, with taxes and other oppression. When Mette, a half-Russian, half-Frisian woman, becomes the girlfriend of Kommissar Tschernoff, the Frisians murder her and throw her body in ...
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Friesennot is a 1935 German film directed by Peter Hagen.
The film is also known as Dorf im roten Sturm (German reissue title) and Frisions in Distress (USA).
Communists authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union, with taxes and other oppression. When Mette, a half-Russian, half-Frisian woman, becomes the girlfriend of Kommissar Tschernoff, the Frisians murder her and throw her body in the swamp. Open violence breaks out, and the Red Army soldiers are all killed; the villagers set fire to their village and flee.
Despite Nazi hostility to religion, a cynical piece of anti-Communist propaganda depicts the Communists as posting obscene anti-religious posters, and the Friesans as piously declaring that all authority comes from God.
The portrayal of Cherkov does not conform to the heavy-hand depiction of Communist as brutal and murderous in such films as Flüchtlinge; he is truly and passionately in love with Mette, and only with...
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