The North Star
Average: 3
- ratings (3)
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Director:
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Lewis Milestone
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Production:
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Samuel Goldwyn Company, The
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Year:
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1943
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Running time:
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108'
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Cast:
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Anne Baxter,
Dana Andrews,
Walter Huston
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Genre:
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War,
Drama
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Plot synopsis:
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In a peaceful Ukrainian v...
In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year is just ending in June 1941. Five young friends set out for a walking trip to Kiev, but their travels are brutally interrupted when they are suddenly attacked by German planes, in the first wave of the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union. When the village itself is attacked and occupied, most of the men flee to the hills to form a guerrilla unit. The others resist the Nazis as well as possible, but soon the village is placed under the command of a Nazi doctor who begins using the town's children as a source of constant blood transfusions for wounded German soldiers. Meanwhile, the small group of young persons tries desperately to take a supply of firearms to the guerrillas. 
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Nation:
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UNITED STATES
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Cinematography:
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Dan Mandell
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Film editor:
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William Cameron Menzies
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Screenplay:
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Lillian Hellman
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Play4film's point of view:
A classic of war Cinema directed by Lewis Milestone - who also made "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" and "The Front Page" - "The North Star" is a strenuously pro Soviet film. Americans and Russians against the Nazi peril which is embodied in the figure of Erich von Stroheim, brilliant director in his own right who made films such as "Queen Kelly" and "Foolish Wives". Milestone's direction is agile and extremely competent, particularly effective when working on the adventure story genre. Of his other films, one recalls the war story "A Walk in the Sun".
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