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17/10/1985 Drama, War 2h 22m
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The cruelest side of war.

Overview

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

  1. Elem Klimov

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Aleksei Kravchenko

    Flyora Gayshun

  2. Olga Mironova

    Glasha

  3. Liubomiras Laucevičius

    Kosach

  4. Vladas Bagdonas

    Rubezh

  5. Jüri Lumiste

    Obersturmführer

  6. Viktors Lorencs

    Sturmbannführer

  7. Kazimir Rabetsky

    Village Headman

  8. Yevgeni Tilicheyev

    Gezhel

  9. Aleksandr Berda

    Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-09-03
This has got to be the perfect antidote to the Hollywood treatment of a war film. It's bleak, grim and repulsive - and all in a great, intentional, cinematographic fashion. The thread centres around the young "Flyora" (a superb effort from Aleksey Kravchenko) who is taken from his Belorussian family farm at gunpoint (along with anything it's possible to eat) by the invading Nazi troops. What now ensues follows this young man as he escapes his captors, finds an old rifle and determines to join up with the communists who are fighting almost insurmountable odds to thwart their encroaching, heavil...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Russian

Budget
$5,000,000.00

Revenue
$20,929,648.00

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