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.
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Music
Music by Sergei Pototsky
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Vsevolod PavlovskiyScreenplay
- Yurij YanovskyiNovel
- Original title
- Всадники
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 29, 1939
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Lev SverdlinChubenko
Stepan ShkuratYakim Nedolya
Petro MasokhaIvan Polovets
Mikhail TroyanovskyMusiy Polovets- Vladimir OsvetsimskyGeneral Emelsdorf
- Mykola BraterskyiOverko Polovets
Grigori DolgovGurkovsky
Dmytro Milyutenko
Yelena KuzminaOksana- Nikolai Orlov
- Yuriy BantyshLieutenant
Dmytro Holubynskyi
Heinrich Greif
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