GUERRILLA BRIGADE (1939)

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Guerrilla Brigade
War, Drama, History
July 29, 1939
Russian
1h 34m
Soviet Union
Kiev Film Studio
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.
Cast & Characters
Lev Sverdlin
Chubenko
Stepan Shkurat
Yakim Nedolya
Petro Masokha
Ivan Polovets
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Musiy Polovets
Vladimir Osvetsimsky
General Emelsdorf
Mykola Braterskyi
Overko Polovets
Grigori Dolgov
Gurkovsky
Yelena Kuzmina
Oksana
Crew
Ihor Savchenko
Director
Yurij Yanovskyi
Novel
Vsevolod Pavlovskiy
Screenplay
Sergey Pototsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Okulich
Director of Photography