Release Date: 1939-07-29
Overview: 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.
Rating: 5 / 10
Lev Sverdlin
as Chubenko
Stepan Shkurat
as Yakim Nedolya
Petro Masokha
as Ivan Polovets
Mikhail Troyanovsky
as Musiy Polovets
Vladimir Osvetsimsky
as General Emelsdorf
Ihor Savchenko - Director
Vsevolod Pavlovskiy - Screenplay
Vladimir Okulich - Director of Photography
Sergey Pototsky - Original Music Composer
Yurij Yanovskyi - Novel
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