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 (Nataliya Uzhviy), 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, electing 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).
Stars: Nina Alisova, Natalya Uzhviy, Yelena Tyapkina, Hans Klering, Anton Dunajsky, Valentyna Ivashova
Crew: Bentsion Monastyrsky (Director of Photography), Mark Donskoy (Director), Wanda Wasilewska (Screenplay), Lev Shvarts (Music)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Runtime: 93 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 24, 1944
IMDb: 6.1
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