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The Undefeated (2000)

Directed by Oles Yanchuk

Overview

In 1950, long after the world has finished fighting World War II, a fight continues behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain: as the Ukrainians keep fighting both Nazi and Soviet abuses, General Roman Shukhevych (Hryhoriy Hladiy) is forced by brutal circumstances and his own sense of honor and duty to lead this effort as an underground war.  As portrayed by the film, Shukhevych is a genteel family man who is also a complex character (revolted by ethnic discrimination, a music lover and a military genius) that with his charisma fuels his countrymen with desire for freedom. In the end, Shukhevych’s efforts are unable to defeat the Soviets despite paying for his resistance with his life, but they re-enforce Ukrainian patriotism as an underground force until Ukraine finally recovers its freedom from Soviet tyranny.

Length 104 minutes

Actors

Gregory Hlady | Boris Georgievsky | Irma Vitovska | Stanislav Boklan | Victoria Malektorovych | Anatoli Barchuk | Serhiy Romaniuk | Viktor Stepanov | Дмитрий Миргородский | Volodymyr Horianskyi | Georgiy Moroziuk | Orest Ogorodnik | Yaroslav Muka | Aleksey Vertinskiy | Olga Kogut | Vasyl Portiak | Ivan Kadubets | Stanislav Molganov | Volodymyr Abazopulo | Aleksandr Bystrushkin