The North Star Summary
Director: Lewis Milestone
Genres: War
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In this bit of WWII propaganda (designed to boost support of America's alliance with Russia against Germany), Kolya (Dana_Andrews), Kurin (Walter_Huston), Damian (Farley_Granger), and Marina (Anne_Baxter) are members of a farming collective in the Ukraine known as the North Star. The hard-working but happy members of the North Star find their way of life shattered when Germany, in defiance of previous treaties, storms the nation and begins a brutal occupation. Dr. Otto Von Harden (Erich_Von_Stroheim) begins gathering children -- who are to be used for blood transfusions and medical experiments. Many of the outraged farmers take to the hills to fight with the anti-Nazi resistance, while those who stay behind bravely destroy precious crops and materiel rather than turn them over to the Nazi war machine. Producer Samuel_Goldwyn made The North Star at the request of President Franklin_D._Roosevelt (whose son James was an executive at Goldwyn's studio). Ironically, several members of the film's creative team (including screenwriter Lilian_Hellman) later found their motivations for making the film questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, who declared it Communist propaganda. Mark Deming, Rovi
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