Nazis and Blondes (Fritsud ja blondiinid)

Open the Gate!.

THEY WERE...

YOUNG

HANDSOME

This world that I create

shall belong to your kind, Danvitz!

BLONDES

We will shoot every second one.

ONE...

DECADENTS

Who are you lvan?

MURDERERS

Stop! Old man play bad.

We shoot old man!

CRlMlNALS

BALTlC ACTORS

Nazis & Blondes

The Republic of Latvia.

Courland

The ground is full of metal here.

This is where the last battles of WWll on European soil were held.

One fine, summer day, here in Courland's Edwahlen castle,

there was a gathering of some of the celebrities from the Baltic states.

"The First Reunion of the Veterans of the ldeological Front"

These are the notorious film actors from the Baltic states.

Among their roles in Soviet cinema, were those of most of the invaders,

aryan beauties,

the Nazi executioners,

blondes, sexbomb's

the sadists.

You are the participants and veterans

of the ideological war.

Baltic actors had

the HONOR...

of depicting

EVlL on the screen!

Welcome to this castle!

Welcome to the veterans' reunion!

Ladies and gentlemen.

We are giving out prizes.

The name of our prize is...

the Ring of the Nibelungen.

During the Soviet regime, we heard thousands of times that

No one will be forgotten! Nothing will be forgotten!

And actually there is no one outside of the people here among us,

who could have depicted the roles of the German occupiers better.

But no prizes or awards were given out for that.

It is time

to put that wrong to right.

Cheer up!

Let's begin the gala evening.

The name of the first category is Albericht.

Hitler is by far the uncrowned height of Nazi roles.

The Nazi Hamlet!

To our knowledge, no Baltic actor has been given

the privilege of playing HlM, himself.

And yet, the callous steel shell of the fascist

sometimes concealed a person

who was wrought with doubts.

On the screen before you we present:

the candidates for the Ring of the Nibelung award...

the Doubting Nazi,

"The Ring of the Nibelunges" Nominees for the DOUBTlNG NAZl

I spent five years building my fort, fearing to think about the future.

I lived from inertia,

but now many Germans have started to understand,

what a catastrophe Nazism was for Germany.

Germany will survive, try to understand that.

Only madmen would think about destroying your homeland.

Follow your consciences.

The first nominee - Uldis Lieldidzs! Latvian SSR

I was filming in Mosfilm one day, and went across the street after the take

to the glass pavilion with the sign "Pelmennaja".

I went in, ordered 1.5 servings of dumplings.

Sour cream.

But I started to feel like something wasn't right.

A young man sat nearby,

He was 9-10, with his mother.

The young man kept peering at me, constantly, like this.

I was already afraid that something was coming.

It was. The boy stood up, very politely, came over to me and asked:

"Mister, are you a fascist?"

"Listen, young man, I'm an actor."

He said: "l know, that you are a fascist. " And he became very serious.

I told him that I was an actor;, that I came from Latvia to film at Mosfilm.

But he said: "l know you, you're a fascist. "

And he left, but I wasn't hungry any more after that.

He walked away and sat down next to his mom.

He finished eating, stood up.

Walked all the way through the room.

Turned around at the door and yelled across the whole room:

People!

There is a fascist over there, stuffing himself with our dumplings!

When they wanted to show a scoundrel in some stupid Soviet film

and to make it immediately obvious that he was an enemy and a scoundrel,

They had him chew with his mouth open.

Always chicken, eating with his hands...

Chicken is awkward to eat.

And who eats like that - of course, it's the enemy.

Because he wouldn't eat meat and potatoes. Only normal people eat that.

Of course normal people also eat chicken,

but eating chicken isn't appealing. So the guy eating chicken is a scoundrel.

He's eating chicken on screen, which means he's a scoundrel.

No doubt whatsoever!

A Tatar enemy is even worse.

Closer.

Stronger.

You can't buy your freedom from him.

A GERMAN!

In 1938, the forty-year-old Russian director, Sergey Eisenstein

makes the film "Alexandr Nevsky".

With a historical struggle as his backdrop, he prophetically depicts

the suffering of the upcoming war, which awaits the Soviet people during

the thieving conquest of the Germans.

Eisenstein was a person in the Bolshevik-Communist world at that time

who wasn't agree with the situation.

Eisentein.

He was clever, and he realized that he was a talented director

and he wanted to be the first in this world.

That was his eternal mistake.

When he makes "Alexandr Nevsky" he is on the verge of hysterics.

He has practically been denied work

after his last film was banned.

There's nothing he can do.

So he makes a deliberately fictitious film

with deliberately false historical facts.

He does it convincingly

Makes it into a sort of musical.

A kind of opera.

The film evokes a huge response, it is successful,

but the most important thing is, that Stalin says:

"Look - at last we have a completely flawless film."

The director was all the more surprised

when the freshly completed, operatic film was unexpectedly shelved.

The Soviet Union and Germany became allies.

As a twist of fate, Sergey Eisenstein had to direct at Moscow's Bolshoi theater -

a new opera - the Valkyrie from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung series,

staged in honor of the German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Those were dynamic times

and a lot was accomplished together before the quarreling began.

In 1939, a joint victory parade was organized in Brest-Litovsk

to celebrate the defeat of the Polish forces.

Together, two large powers shared Poland amongst each other,

with the Baltic countries and part of Romania in the back end.

The conquest seized land, raw materials, resources.

Some of these resources were completely unusual.

Conquering the Baltics also gave the Soviet film industry

control of talented actors. The future personifiers of evil.

And these are the main characters of this film.

And yet, the winds changed again.

The Second World War began; recent friends became enemies,

and the canons of depicting the enemy created by Eisenstein

once again went into use.

In "Rainbow," the lead was actually played by a German actor -

a rare case in Soviet cinema - Hans Klering, a German communist

who came here from Germany; he emigrated.

He really liked the Soviet order, the Soviet authority.

He lived quite well because he always played the roles of Germans in films.

He was already playing Germans in the 1930s,

but when the war started, he undoubtedly had a lot more work.

Soon we see how strong you are! You stinking bolschevik mother!

I'm mother!

Then tell me where are they?

I don't say anything.

He didn't play only in "Rainbow", but it is one rare situation

where the Germans and German villains were played by German.

There were others, such as Heinz Braun, a second-rate actor.

He also played a lot of Germans.

In Moscow, he worked as a newscaster on German Radio.

He and I worked together on two films.

I asked him once: "How do you feel, Heinzik?

You were a soldier, now you play a fascist?

And such a fierce one at that?

He said: "You know, everything they film here is nonsense.

I've lived through it all and I know.

What they're filming there is all fairy-tales.

You can't take it seriously.

I'm satisfied that I can correct the way we look, set the cross correctly.

Make sure we act the right way, wear our hats the right way.

And all the rest is made up, it's nonsense. Nothing like that ever happened

and I can't bear it.

But I get paid very well."

"The Ring of the Nibelunges" Nominees for the BEST NAZl EYE

One could smile because of one sight, and blush because of another.

There is also another, special facial expression, receiving an award today.

There is a reason to fight against the Communism virus.

You shouldn't even exist.

This mission will be completed.

Today or tomorrow.

Estonian SSR

Wouldn't you like to unite the people you trust,

a certain organization,

which could, in a sense, take care of the future of Russia.

Interesting...

...interesting...

But in the interest of avoiding misjudgment from the start,

there is no need to worry about Russia.

Russia shall not exist.

Lithuanian SSR

I want you to understand how easily we are entering the post-war world.