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Commandant of Lauterburg

1969 · 129 min

A slow, earnest postwar drama about duty and moral pressure, more talk than action, with a somber, stage-like intimacy.

Overview
Follows the service of Lieutenant Colonel Lubentsov as commandant of the German city of Lauterburg in the first days after the end of the Great Patriotic War.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • power
  • morality
  • identity
  • justice
Places
  • small town
  • military
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
war, tv movie
Directed by
Pavel Reznikov
Written by
Isai Kuznetsov
Starring
Nikolai Volkov Jr., Aleksey Eybozhenko, Georgiy Martynyuk, Leonid Bronevoy, Olga Yakovleva, Arkadiy Peselev, Leonid Kanevsky, Grigoriy Lyampe
Cinematography
Vladimir Kulikov
Runtime
129 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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