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Der Postmeister (English: The Postmaster or The Stationmaster) is a 1940 Austrian-German film directed by Gustav Ucicky.[1] Released during the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it depicts Russians in a sympathetic light, unlike their depiction in such films as Frisians in Peril before or GPU after.[2] It was very loosely based on The Station Master, an 1831 short story from The Belkin Tales series by Alexander Pushkin. It was remade in 1955 as Dunja. An earlier version was the French film Nostalgie (1938) with Harry Baur, directed by Victor Tourjansky.

Der Postmeister
Directed by	Gustav Ucicky
Written by	Alexander Pushkin (short story) Gerhard Menzel
Produced by	Karl Hartl Erich von Neusser
Starring	Heinrich George Hilde Krahl Siegfried Breuer
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger
Edited by	Rudolf Schaad
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	Wien Film
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	24 April 1940
Running time	92 minutes
Countries	Austria Germany
Language	German

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. It was made in German-occupied Austria by the Wien Film company, and distributed by the UFA concern.

At the Venice Film Festival, Der Postmeister won the Mussolini Cup for best foreign film.

Plot

The daughter of a stationmaster falls in love with a cavalry captain. He persuades her to run away with him to St. Petersburg, but she realizes there that he never intended to marry her.

Cast

• Heinrich George as Der Postmeister
• Hilde Krahl as Dunja
• Siegfried Breuer as Rittmeister Minskij
• Hans Holt as Fähnrich Mitja
• Ruth Hellberg as Elisawetha
• Margit Symo as Mascha
• Erik Frey as Sergej
• Alfred Neugebauer as Gutsbesitzer
• Franz Pfaudler as Knecht Pjotr
• Leo Peukert as Oberst
• Reinhold Häussermann as Schneider
• Auguste Pünkösdy as Wirobowa

See also

• The Stationmaster (1925)

References

External links

• The Stationmaster (1940) at IMDb
• Der Postmeister Full movie at the Deutsche Filmothek

На других языках

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- [en] Der Postmeister

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[ru] Почтмейстер (фильм)

«Почтмейстер» (нем. Der Postmeister) — немецкий фильм-драма 1940 года режиссера Густава Учицки по мотивам повести А. С. Пушкина «Станционный смотритель» из цикла «Повести покойного Ивана Петровича Белкина». В 1955 году был снят ремейк фильма — «Дуня».

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