Cinema
Trial on the Road
Проверка на дорогах
Aleksei German · 1971
Synopsis
Winter 1942, in an occupied region of Russia. A partisan detachment commanded by Ivan Lokotkov fights behind the German lines. Sergeant Alexander Lazarev, a former Red Army soldier taken prisoner and put into German service, comes to give himself up and asks to fight, claiming to have been enrolled against his will. His commanders are divided over his sincerity. Food is short, and the detachment prepares to attack a supply train.
Context
Edouard Volodarski wrote the screenplay from a story by Iouri Guerman, the director's father. Shot in black and white at the Lenfilm studio, the film brings together Rolan Bykov as Lokotkov, Vladimir Zamanski as Lazarev, Anatoli Solonitsyne and Oleg Borissov. Completed in 1971, it remained banned for some fifteen years: it was reproached with de-heroizing the partisan movement.
Who it is for
A war film of about an hour and a half, in black and white, which raises the question of betrayal and forgiveness.
Prizes and reception
According to the encyclopaedia of the Tass agency, a film held back by the censors until the mid-1980s.
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