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).

Top Cast

Nina Alisova

Pusya

Nataliia Uzhvii

Olena Kostyuk

Yelena Tyapkina

Fedosya

Hans Klering

Kurt Werner

A

Anton Dunaiskyi

Evdokim Petrovich Ohapka

Valentyna Ivashova

Olga

Anna Lisyanskaya

Malyuchikha

Vladimir Chobur

Serhiy Kravchenko

M

Mykola Braterskyi

Petro Haplyk

Emma Malaya

Y

Yelizaveta Khutornaya

Grokhachikha

V

Viktor Bubnov

Comrade of lieutenant Kravchenko (uncredited)