Der Postmeister (1940)

Directed by

Gustav Ucicky

Genre

drama film, propaganda film

Country

Nazi Germany

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A stationmaster in 19th century Russia lives a quiet life with his beautiful daughter. A visiting hussar falls in love with her, leading to conflict and heartbreak for the father.

melancholicslow-burnnostalgictragicexpressivedramatichistoricalsereneemotionally tense

What happens

Der Postmeister (English: The Postmaster or The Stationmaster) is a 1940 Austrian-German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky. 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 adaptation was the French film Nostalgie (1938) with Harry Baur, directed by Victor Tourjansky. The film's sets were designed by art directors Kurt Herlth and Werner Schlichting. It was produced in Austria during its occupation by Nazi Germany, by the Wien Film company, and distributed by UFA. At the Venice Film Festival, Der Postmeister won the Mussolini Cup for best foreign film. Released during the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, it depicts Russians in a sympathetic light, unlike their portrayals in such films as Frisians in Peril before or GPU after. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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