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Guerrilla Brigade (1939)
Directed by Igor Savchenko
Overview
Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of the 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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Lev Sverdlin | Stepan Shkurat | Pyotr Masokha | Mikhail Troyanovsky | Vladimir Osvetsimsky | Nikolai Braterskiy | Grigori Dolgov | Dmitri Milyutenko | Yelena Kuzmina (I)