Overview
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.
Cast
- Lev Sverdlin as Chubenko
- Stepan Shkurat as Yakim Nedolya
- Petro Masokha as Ivan Polovets
- Mikhail Troyanovsky as Musiy Polovets
- Vladimir Osvetsimsky as General Emelsdorf
- Mykola Braterskyi as Overko Polovets
- Grigori Dolgov as Gurkovsky
- Dmytro Milyutenko
- Yelena Kuzmina as Oksana
- Nikolai Orlov