The Murderers Are Coming (1942)
Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of poverty, violence, fear and pretence. Nazi antisemitism is depicted in several of the sketches, including "the Physicist", "Judicial Process", and "the Jewish Wife".
Directors:
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Yuri Tarich.
Writers:
Manuel Bolshintsov, Vsevolod Pudovkin.
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Mikhail Astangov as |
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Boris Blinov as |
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Sofiya Magarill as |
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Ada Vojtsik as |
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Oleg Zhakov as |
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Olga Zhizneva as |
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Aleksandr Violinov as Karl Furke |
| Directing | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Director |
| Directing | Yuri Tarich | Director |
| Writing | Manuel Bolshintsov | Screenplay |
| Art | Artur Berger | Production Design |
| Camera | Era Savelyeva | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Boris Volchek | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Bertolt Brecht | Short Story |
| Production | Fridrikh Ermler | Producer |
| Writing | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Screenplay |
| Directing | Vladimir Nemolyayev | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Konstantin Gordon | Sound Director |
| Sound | S. Gindin | Conductor |
| Sound | Nikolai Kryukov | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Yefim Khayutin | Producer |
| Lighting | B. Levitin | Lighting Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | M. Maslova | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | Izrail Pikman | Assistant Camera |
| Art | Yefim Deshalyt | Assistant Production Design |
| Directing | M. Kucherenko | First Assistant Director |