RE: [Cz-L] After war movies in Czernowitz

And not to be forgotten in the picture also stars Sonja Henje whom every young Czernowitzer

would have gladly partnered on the ice (and not only on the ice).

Berti
 
> From: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] After war movies in Czernowitz
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:35:07 +0200
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzHIn5S-RbY&feature=related
>
> If you click this link you get a clip called "Chattanooga Choo Choo " a
> dance sequence
> from an american movie called " Sunshine Valley Serenade " and is from 1941
> featuring
> Glenn Miller and orchestra . The girl is Dorothy Dandridge who later got
> an Oscar for
> doing "Carmen Jones ".
> How does this fit into the Czernowitz group mail ? Let me explain :
> After the war we started enjoying life again and cinema was our main
> entertainment.
> Mainly Soviet movies focused on the war . Victory over the Nazis , Nazi
> atrocities ,
> Partizans in forests ambushing German invaders . Germans in forest
> ambushing
> Partizans, all in Russian that we didnt understand .
> Then they brought " Sun Valley" a nonsense musical comedy and our
> world changed.
> Until then we were made to believe that America was bad. Amerikanskye
> Imperialisty.
> Doomed by history. To be replaced by proletariat.
> After "Sun Valley " all this changed. Music , comedy , dances we
> have never seen the like...
> I know that this was just a movie but we were kids and easily
> impressed ,
> Just look at the clip and imagine yourself a kid of 12 or 14 in a
> Czernowitz cinema
> at the end of the war in 1944 od 1945.
> ( At the exit they were usually holdig up people looking for draft
> dodgers and deserters).
> Hardy
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