Der Postmeister
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Running time 1h 32m Genre Drama | 7/10 IMDb Duration Story by Aleksandr Pushkin Country Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1940 (1940) Writer Alexander Pushkin (short story "Statsionnyy smotritel" from volume "Povest Belkina"), Gerhard Menzel Cast (Der Postmeister), (Dunja), (Rittmeister Minskij), (Fähnrich Mitja), (Mascha), Hugo Gottschlich (Diener des Rittmeisters)Similar movies Gustav Ucicky directed Der Postmeister and The Broken Jug | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Der Postmeister (English: The Postmaster or The Stationmaster) is a 1940 German film directed by Gustav Ucicky. Released during the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it depicts Russians in a sympathetic light, unlike their depiction in such films as Friesennot before or GPU after.
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It was based on The Station Master, a short story from The Belkin Tales series by Alexander Pushkin. It was remade in 1955 as Dunja. An earlier version was the French film Nostalgie (1938) with Harry Baur, directed by Victor Tourjansky.
At the Venice Film Festival, Der Postmeister won the Mussolini Cup for best foreign film.
Plot
The daughter of a stationmaster falls in love with a cavalry captain. He persuades her to run away with him to St. Petersburg, but she realizes there that he never intended to marry her.
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