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Rainbow (1944)

Rainbow (1944)

Drama War
Release Date: 1944, January 24
Directors: Mark Donskoy
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Cast: Nina Alisova, Hans Klering, Valentyna Ivashova, Anna Lisyanskaya, Nataliia Uzhvii, Yelena Tyapkina, Viktor Bubnov, Vladimir Chobur, Anton Dunaiskyi, Mykola Braterskyi, Yelizaveta Khutornaya

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).