The evolution of the image of the enemy in Soviet cinema. 1941-1964 Orlova A.S.

Who is he, the enemy of Soviet society during the Great Patriotic War? A foreign invader, treacherously attacked our land, robbing and exterminating civilians? The traitor who became a policeman among the Nazis and the revenge of the country or neighbors for personal grievances? Or maybe these are incompetent guidelines, criminally ignoring the growing and obvious Nazi threat to everyone? And which of them is worse?

domestic cinema 1941-1964. He was a powerful tool for the ideological impact on the minds and hearts of more than one post -war generation of Soviet citizens. Therefore, the films of this time are of interest not only from a cultural, but also from a historical point of view.

The victory in the Great Patriotic War over the "external" enemy continued to identify "internal" - cowards, deserters, nationalists, speculators recruited agents, i.e. All those who, according to the authorities, actively prevented the implementation of grandiose tasks for the post -war restoration of the economy and peaceful life of a socialist society. The author analyzes what transformation the image of the enemy has undergone as a foreign element in post -war films, what factors: political or exclusively feature - this influenced and, finally, who and what tasks were set before the creators of the films and how they were embodied and transformed in the processes of creating the Russian middle cinema of the middle XX century.