Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
Cast
Lev Sverdlin
Chubenko
Stepan Shkurat
Yakim Nedolya
Petro Masokha
Ivan Polovets
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Musiy Polovets
Vladimir Osvetsimsky
General Emelsdorf
Mykola Braterskyi
Overko Polovets
Grigori Dolgov
Gurkovsky
Dmytro Milyutenko
Unknown
Yelena Kuzmina
Oksana
Nikolai Orlov
Unknown
Yuriy Bantysh
Lieutenant
Dmytro Holubynskyi
Unknown
Crew
Ihor Savchenko
Director
A. Golovanov
Co-Director
Vsevolod Pavlovskiy
Screenplay
Yurij Yanovskyi
Novel
Varvara Bondina
Editor
Vladimir Okulich
Director of Photography
Pyotr Gorbenko
Additional Director of Photography
Nikolai Zyryanov
Assistant Director
Timofei Levchuk
Assistant Director
B. Yaroslavskiy
Assistant Director
Boris Krakovskiy
Executive Producer
Militsa Simashkevich
Production Design
A. Marshuk
Camera Operator
M. Vulfson
Camera Operator
Andrei Prakhov
Sound Director
Oleksandr Babiy
Sound Director
Sergey Pototsky
Original Music Composer
Andrey Malyshko
Lyricist
S. Gindin
Conductor
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