Movielogr
Badgers (1968)
Directed by Lidiya Ishimbaeva, Viktor Ryzhkov
Overview
Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers’ life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant’s bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits…
Length 264 minutes
Actors
Lev Zolotukhin | Afanasi Kochetkov | Sergey Yeremeyev | Igor Bastrikov | Boris Sitko | Vyacheslav Yezepov | Anatoliy Toropov | Aleksey Eybozhenko | Sergei Markushev | Svetlana Boychenko | Lyudmila Pashkova | Boris Telegin | Yuriy Solomin | Sergei Kharchenko | Vladimir Vill | Ivan Vereisky | Aleksandr Pronin | Vladimir Kolosov | Evgeni Burenkov | Николай Алексеев | Viktor Bortsov | Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya | Aleksei Gribov | Mikhail Zimin | Anastasiya Zuyeva | Nikolai Kovshov | Nikifor Kolofidin | Ludmila Kudryavtceva | Mikhail Medvedev | Vyacheslav Nevinnyy | Viktor Novoselskiy | Dmitri Pavlov | Dmitri Popov | Vladimir Privaltcev | Valiry Pushkarev | Sergey Safonov | Konstantin Svetlov | Yevdokiya Urusova | Dmitriy Shutov | Vladimir Kashpur | Anatoli Opritov | Roman Fertman | Vitaly Belyakov | Yevgeni Kindinov | Aleksey Neznamov | Nikolay Sunozov | Vasili Popov | Pyotr Kudlay