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.
Top Cast
Lev Sverdlin as Chubenko
Stepan Shkurat as Yakim Nedolya
Petro Masokha as Ivan Polovets
Mikhail Troyanovsky as Musiy Polovets
Vladimir Osvetsimsky as General Emelsdorf
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