Released:
1944-01-24

Overview:
The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olga, a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis. Eventually, the villagers rise up against their oppressors-but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, choosing instead to force the surviving Nazis to stand trial for their atrocities in a postwar "people's court." (It is also implied that those who collaborated with the Germans will be dealt with in the same evenhanded fashion).

Director:
Mark Donskoy

Runtime:
1h 33min

Genre:
War, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Nina Alisova
  as
  Pusya
• 
  Nataliia Uzhvii
  as
  Olena Kostyuk
• 
  Yelena Tyapkina
  as
  Fedosya
• 
  Hans Klering
  as
  Kurt Werner
• 
  Anton Dunaiskyi
  as
  Evdokim Petrovich Ohapka