The Young Fritz
Encyclopedia
The Young Fritz is a 1943 Soviet
film
directed by Grigori Kozintsev
and Leonid Trauberg
based on a short satiric poem by Samuil Marshak
. The film was banned by censors, never released, and is believed to be lost.
Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with "Cinema of Russia" despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history,...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...
and Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...
based on a short satiric poem by Samuil Marshak
Samuil Marshak
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]...
. The film was banned by censors, never released, and is believed to be lost.
Cast
- Mikhail ZharovMikhail ZharovMikhail Ivanovich Zharov was a Russian actor.He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita...
- Fritz - Maksim Shtraukh - Examining professor
- Mikhail AstangovMikhail AstangovMikhail Fyodorovich Astangov , pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR .-Selected filmography:* Minin and Pozharsky * Suvorov * The Murderers are Coming...
- Teacher - Vsevolod PudovkinVsevolod PudovkinVsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage...
- Officer - Yanina ZhejmoYanina ZhejmoYanina Boleslavovna Zhejmo was a Soviet actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1925 and 1955.-Filmography:* Mishki versus Yudenich * The Devil's Wheel * The Overcoat * Somebody Else's Coat...
- Mikhail Vysotsky - Father
- Lydia Atmanaki - Mother
- Lyudmila Shabalina - Tour guide in Museum of the Future
- Konstantin Sorokin - Franz