Overview

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.

Top 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