ID

FBW002870      Fiction

Country / Year

USSR, 1991

Original Title

Isydi!

Other Title(s)

Hinweg! (German)
Leave!

Directed by

Dmitri Astrachan

Produced by

Assoziation 'Newski Prospekt' Azmatbank, Leningrad; in partnership with Lenfilmstudios, Leningrad

Staff

Script: Oleg Danilow, Dmitri Astrachan; Based on: Scholem Alejchem (Motiv aus Erzählung), Alexander Kuprin (Motiv aus Erzählung), Isaak Babel (Motiv aus Erzählung); Camera: Juri Woronzow; Editing: Nadesha Wiktorowa; Sound: Alexander Sysoljatin; Art direction: Sergej Kokowkin, Maria Petrowa; Music: Alexander Pantykin

Cast

Otar Megwentuchuzessi (Motl); Jelena Anissimowa (Golda, seine Frau); Tamara Schirtladse (Seine Mutter); Tatjana Kusnezowa (Bejla); Wladimir Kabalin (Iwan); Alexander Lukow (Petja); Walentin Bukin (Trofim); Viktor Michajlow (Polizist)

Length

90'

Format

35mm/farbe/1:1,37

Dates

- 03 Jun 1991: Premiere, Sotschi (Festival "Kinotawr")
- 16 Feb 1992: First run, GFR, Berlin (42. Internationale Filmfestspiele, Delphi, 22. Internationales Forum des Jungen Films)

Abstract

The film deals with the subject of the anti-semitic pogroms in turn-of -the-century Russia, in which the few remaining jewish "shtetl" were destroyed: In the Ukrainean village of Antonowka there is only one jewish familiy the milk-man Motl Rabinowitsch, his wife, mother and daughter. None of the Russians nor Ukraineans are bothered by the fact that they are jews. On the contrary, they all live in peace together. Suddenly the village policeman receives orders to stage a pogrom in Antonowka. Motl, who is well respected, suggests faking one. In fact, however, they get word that an angry mob is on ist way to Antonowka.

Subject Terms

Anti-Semitism; Persecution of the Jews; Pogroms; Ukraine

Bibliography

- Iltschenko, Sergej: , in: Smena (Leningrad), 19.06.1991
- Lyndina, Elga: , in: Rossijkije westi, 11.07.1991
- Maximow, Maxim: [Interview mit Dmitri Astrachan], in: Smena (Leningrad), 11.09.1991