Girl No. 217

Girl No. 217
Directed by	Mikhail Romm
Written by	Mikhail Romm Yevgeny Gabrilovich
Starring	Yelena Kuzmina Vladimir Balashov Tatyana Barysheva Heinrich Greif
Music by	Aram Khachaturian
Cinematography	Boris Volchek Era Savelyeva
Production company	Mosfilm
Release dates	9 April 1945 (1945-04-09)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Girl No. 217 (Russian: Человек № 217, translit. Chelovek No. 217) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Romm. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

An anti-Nazi film, it depicted a Russian girl enslaved to an inhuman German family.^[2] She is even robbed of her name and forced to answer to "No. 217".^[3] Subplots depict abuse directed at other POWs.^[3] This reflected the use by Nazis of OST-Arbeiter as slave labour, including as family servants.

Cast

• Yelena Kuzmina as Tanya Krylova - Nr. 217
• Vladimir Balashov
• Tatyana Barysheva
• Heinrich Greif as Kurt Kahger
• Anastasiya Lissianskaya as Klava
• Grigory Mikhaylov as Prisoner Nr. 225
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lotta
• Peter Suthanov as Rudolph Peschke
• Vasili Zajchikov as Scientist

References

External links

• Girl No. 217 at the Internet Movie Database

Aram Khachaturian
Ballets	Gayane (1939–41) "Sabre Dance" Spartacus (1950–54)
Orchestral	Symphony No. 2 The Bell Symphony (1944) Symphony No. 3 Symphony-Poem (1947) State Anthem of the Armenian SSR (1944) Suite from Masquerade (1944)
Concerti	Piano Concerto in D-flat major (1936) Violin Concerto in D minor (1940) Cello Concerto in E minor (1946)
Piano	Toccata (1932)
Incidental music	Masquerade (1941)
Film scores	Pepo (1934–35) Zangezur (1937–38) Salavat Yulayev (1939) Girl No. 217 (1945) The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) Othello (1955)
Related articles	House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian Music of Armenia
List of compositions by Aram Khachaturian