1939
5.0 (4 votes)
1h 34m
Genres
War
Drama
History
Production Companies
Kiev Film Studio
Guerrilla Brigade (Всадники)
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.
Key Crew
Screenplay: Vsevolod Pavlovskiy
Director: Ihor Savchenko
Director of Photography: Vladimir Okulich
Top Cast
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
