Girl No. 217



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

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

Cast

 * Yelena Kuzmina as Tanya Krylova (Nr. 217)
 * Vladimir Balashov as Max Krauss
 * Tatyana Barysheva as Greta Krauss
 * Heinrich Greif as Kurt Kahger
 * Anastasiya Lissianskaya as Klava Vasilyeva
 * Grigory Mikhaylov as prisoner Nr. 225
 * Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Lotta Krauss
 * Peter Suthanov as Rudolph Peschke
 * Vasili Zajchikov as scientist