Alphabetical Movie Listings: "Km-Kz"


Figure 1.--One famous Soviet movie "Ko mne, Muhtar!" (literaly, "To me, Muhtar", a command given to the dog). Almost all Russians will remember the film. The movie (based on an actual police dog) is about the life of a German shepherd named Muhtar that served years in the militsia (Russian name of the police). Muhtar's master is Lieutenant Glazychev (played by Yuri Nikulin the star of Soviet cinema). Together Muhtar and Lt. Glazychev find criminals of all kinds.

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Knute Rockne: All American - (US, 1940)

Several children appear in the film. One very young boy plays Knite in Norway at about age 4 or 5 years. Johnny Sheffield has a brief part at the beginning of the film when he plays the young Knute in America at age 9 years. This was just one year following his first Tarzan film. Johnny plays his part quite well. He wears knickers. Several other kids appear, mostly in knickers. He pesters the big boys to let him play football. He is run over two btimes, but makes the tackle. The second time he is knocked out. As a result he is late to dinner which upsets his father who lectures him in Norwegian. There follows a great line. "Speak American papa. We're all American now. Especially me, I'm the left end." He tells his parents thast he has been playing a most wonderous game. Jis mother asks why his nose is bleeding. He replies nonchalantly, "Some one must have stepped on me." Many today will see this as corny, but in fact many boys in immigrant families had this conversation about speaking 'American' and becoming American with their fathers in the late-19th and early-20th century. And it was sucessive generations of immigrant boys that played key roles in saving Europe from the Germans in World War I, again in World war II, and finally saving Europe from the Siviets in the Cold War. In the film, Knute himself has two kids. The two are pictured together on a train when the older was about 12.

Ko mne, Muhtar! - (Russia, 1964)

One famous Soviet movie "Ko mne, Muhtar!" (literaly, "To me, Muhtar", a command given to the dog). Almost all Russians will remember the film. The movie (based on an actual police dog) is about the life of a German shepherd named Muhtar that served years in the militsia (Russian name of the police). Muhtar's master is Lieutenant Glazychev (played by Yuri Nikulin the star of Soviet cinema). Together Muhtar and Lt. Glazychev find criminals of all kinds. In one scene Glazychev's son tries to give to Muhtar some sweets but Muhtar doesn’t eat. He is trained to accept food only from his master, Glazychev. This is a great film for dog lovers. It is a little different than the great American dog films w(Lassie and Rin Tin Tin which usually paired a boy and a loyal pooch.

Kolburg - (Germany, 1944)

German propaganda minister Joseg Gobbels ordered a film made on the suicidal Prussian defense of Kolburg during the Seven Years War in the 18th century. Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War faced an allied coalition (Austria and Russia). Of course Hitler and Goebbels thought this would be an excellent example for the German people as the Allied coalition closed in on the NAZIs. The film was made at a time that shortges were becoming increasingly severe and that the Wehrmact was being pushed back on wide front on the Eastern Front. Evn so, whole military units were employed in the film as exrtras. A scene in the film shows boy soldiers dieing in the defense of Kolburg. At the time the Voklsturm was being formed, composed of Hitler Youth boys and old men who were expected to follow the example of the boy soldiers at Kolburg.

Kolya - (Czech, 1996)

Sensitive film set in the 1980s about a crusty Czech bachelor who finds himself responsible for a 3-year old Russian boy. The boy is a charming little fellow who plays his part beautifully. He was found in a Moscow kindergarten and had no acting experience.

Komarov Brothers - (Soviet Union, 196?)

The Soviet movie "Komarov Brothers" was the work of famous Soviet screenplay writer and film director Juri Nagibin. It is about a Kindergarten group. In the summer Soviet Kindergartens worked as usual, they had no summer vacations. But many city kindergartens (mainly boarding) during the Summer went (along with all children and teachers) to "dacha" - special summer kindergarten complex located in the healthful country areas. There children could bask in the sun, play in the open air, learn to swim and so on until August, when they returned to the city and their usual building. This film is about such a Summer "dacha" Kindergarden.

Konrak - (US)

A idealistic young Southern white teacher is assigned to teach in a black school on an isolated South Carolina island. Based on his actual experiences described in his book, Over the Water [I forget the name of the book, this is just a guess.] Konrak takes a far different appraoch to teaching than the mean-spirited back teacher he replaced. The same author also pubished a book made intio a movie about his experiences at the Citedel--a Charleston military academy.

Kopf Hoch, Johannes! / Chin Up, Johannes (Germany, 1941)

"Kopf Hoch,Johannes" (Chin Up, Johannes) is a NAZI propaganda film about The vHitler Youth. Johannes, a boy from a privileged family, just the kind the NAZIs reviled as bourgeois. He is not of the "New Order". He doesn't understand the importance of "kamaradeschaft" (comradeship) and sacrifice. It seems he is initially resistant to joining the Hitler Youth (HJ), but ultimately is sent to an HJ camp where at last he becomes a dedicated Hitler Junge. The film is a little curious because the NAZIs required children to join the HJ at age 10 (1936). By 1941 only a dioctor's excuse could have kept a boy out of the HJ. So we are not sure why this film was being made. Does it suggest that sime boys and families were resisting participation in the HJ? Was this common among well to do families? Or does it address a non-existent problem. The parents could get intgo trouble for keeping their chikldren out of the HJ. We suspect this may have been a problemn for the HJ early in the NAZI era, but wonder about it in 1941. The film was directed by the German film matinee idol, Viktor de Kowa (who was married to a Japanese woman). The Japanese were a probkem for the race-obsessed NAZIs. The plpt is based on a script by Toni Huppertz, Wilhelm Krug, and Feliz von Edkardt (future Chancellor Adenauer's government spokesman). The chief character, Johannes, is the 14 year-old son of a wealthy German land owner. He was played by Clays Detlief.

Korczak - (Poland/Germany/France, 1991)

Korczak is the story of the Polish educator who cared for orphaned Jewish children. The director was Andrei Waida who is probably Poland's most distinguished film director. The movie is a dramatization of the final years of the heroic Polish pediatrician and child psychologist, Dr. Janusz Korczak. He ran a Jewish orphanage. The children like other Polish Jews were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto. After relocation to the Warsaw Ghetto he went with to continue caring for them. As a Christian he was not required by the NAZIs to do so. When the children were tranported to Treblinka in 1943 to be gassed Dr. Korczak insisted on accompaning with them although because he was not Jewish, again he was not required to do so. He died with the children in the gas chambers. We have an image from the film showing one of the older boys of the orphanage. He is an adolescent about 15 years old who falls in love with a non-Jewish girl and whom Dr. Korczak consoles by praising his incipient manhood. The costuming in the film is very accurate. The adolescent is wearing a white shirt, dark short pants, and dark colored (probably brown) long stockings. Although the photo is rather dark, you can see the clasp of his stocking supporter at the hem of his shorts. He may be wearing a bodice or Leibchen under his shirt.

(Denis) Korable Movies (Russia)

Viktor Dragunsky was a Soviet children writer. He was born in United States, in New York in 1913 in the family of Russian immigrants, but his parents soon returned to Russia. He worked as a theater/movie actor, as a clown in circus and as a screenplay writer. But he became famous after in 1959 he started to publish small novels about everyday life of a small Russian schoolboy Denis Korablev. Based on various Dragunsky’s novels about Denis Korablev there were taken several children movies in Sovien Union: “Funny Stories” (1962) “Where can it be seen, where can it be heard” (1973) “Captain” (1973) “A spyglass” (1973) “A fire in a house meaning rescue under the ice” (1974) “Wonderful adventures of Denis Korablev” (1979) In all of Dragunsky's stories, Dennis is pictured as a cheerful and active first-grader who lives in Moscow with his mom and dad. He is the most beloved boy character to come out of Soviet literature and movies.


Figure 2.--This is a Czech movie "Král sokolu" (Thomas the Falconer), released in 2000. It takes place in what is now Czechoslovakia (one might guess Bohemia) during the Middle Ages. Orphan Thomas is able to understand the language of animals.

Král sokolu - (Czech, 2000)

This is a Czech movie "Král sokolu" (Thomas the Falconer), released in 2000. It takes place in what is now Czechoslovakia (one might guess Bohemia) during the Middle Ages. Orphan Thomas is able to understand the language of animals. Arriving a castle as a petitioner, this enables him to help the falconer who lost his job, and of course to save a beautiful princess, his first love. I have not seen the film, but an Austrain reader speaks very highly of it.

Kramer vs. Kramer - (US, 1979)

Justin Henry plays a 7-year old boy caught in a bitter custody battle between his work-acholic father and estranged mother. Quite a well acted movie which won an Oscar for best picture. He wears bangs. His personality comes out nicely, including little temper tantrums.

Kruimeltje - (The Netherlands, 2001)

This contemporary film about an orphaned Dutch boy and his dog in the 1920s based on a book by one Chris van Abkoude, who also wrote Pietje Bell, the book every Dutch boy grew up with, that is before they all stopped reading and started playing computer games. The film was marketed in America under the English-language title Little Crum.

Krull - (US, 1983)

A Conan-type scifi movie. The cast includes a boy with the heros. The costuming has no real historic value. The boy involved has a Prince-valiant style hair cut.






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