Guerrilla Brigade
5.9
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.
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Cast
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Lev Sverdlin
Chubenko
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Stepan Shkurat
Yakim Nedolya
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Viy
Petro Masokha
Ivan Polovets
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Earth
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Musiy Polovets
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Vladimir Osvetsimsky
General Emelsdorf
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Zygmunt Kolosovsky
Mykola Braterskyi
Overko Polovets
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Grigori Dolgov
Gurkovsky
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The Taras Family
Dmytro Milyutenko
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Ivan's Childhood
Yelena Kuzmina
Oksana
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By the Bluest of Seas
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Nikolai Orlov
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Stone Flower
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Yuriy Bantysh
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Dmytro Holubynskyi
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Ihor Savchenko Director · Vsevolod Pavlovskiy Screenplay Yurij Yanovskyi Author
First release July 29, 1939 · Produced in Russia, Ukraine, Russia · Languages Russian, Ukrainian
Production
Kyiv Film Studio
Production
Kiev Film Studio
Production
Russia · Ukraine · Russia
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Original title
Всадники
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian · Ukrainian
Release dates
Ukraine · July 29, 1939
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No release date listed for United States.
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