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Guerrilla Brigade (1939)

Guerrilla Brigade (1939)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1939, July 29
Directors: Ihor Savchenko
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Kyiv Film Studio
Cast: Stepan Shkurat, Petro Masokha, Yelena Kuzmina, Lev Sverdlin, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Vladimir Osvetsimsky, Grigori Dolgov, Mykola Braterskyi, Yuriy Bantysh

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.