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).
Cast
Nina Alisova
Pusya
Nataliia Uzhvii
Olena Kostyuk
Yelena Tyapkina
Fedosya
Hans Klering
Kurt Werner
Anton Dunaiskyi
Evdokim Petrovich Ohapka
Valentyna Ivashova
Olga
Anna Lisyanskaya
Malyuchikha
Vladimir Chobur
Serhiy Kravchenko
Mykola Braterskyi
Petro Haplyk
Emma Malaya
Unknown
Yelizaveta Khutornaya
Grokhachikha
Viktor Bubnov
Comrade of lieutenant Kravchenko (uncredited)
Crew
Mark Donskoy
Director
Wanda Wasilewska
Screenplay
N. Gorbenko
Editor
Boris Monastyrsky
Director of Photography
Leonid Man
First Assistant Director
Rafail Perelstein
Assistant Director
Evgeniy Zilbershtein
Assistant Director
Aleksandr Yablochnik
Producer
Valentina Khmelyova
Production Design
Mykhailo Chorny
Camera Operator
S. Berkovskiy
Assistant Camera
D. Suvorov
Assistant Camera
R. Melnik
Costume Design
Nikolay Korobko
Makeup & Hair
P. Fedorenko
Makeup & Hair
Oleksandr Babiy
Sound Director
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
M. Vaynberger
Administration
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