Overview
Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War I, 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
V
Vladimir Osvetsimsky
General Emelsdorf
M
Mykola Braterskyi
Overko Polovets
Grigori Dolgov
Gurkovsky
Dmytro Milyutenko
Yelena Kuzmina
Oksana
N
Nikolai Orlov
Y
Yuriy Bantysh
Lieutenant
Dmytro Holubynskyi
Heinrich Greif