Shchors (Russian: Щорс) is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin,[1] the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors.[2] Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov (1912–2006).
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Directed by | Alexander Dovzhenko Yuliya Solntseva |
Written by | Alexander Dovzhenko |
Starring | Yevgeni Samojlov Ivan Skuratov Aleksandr Grechanyy Aleksandr Khvylya Nikolai Makarenko Pyotr Masokha |
Cinematography | Yuri Goldabenko Yuriy Yekelchik |
Edited by | O. Skripnik |
Music by | Dmitri Kabalevsky |
Distributed by | Kiev Film Studio |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, the courage and the energy of their leader Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers groups gather in the devastated by the civil war in Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. Shchors and his troops advance to Kiev, the seat of the bourgeois nationalists under their leader Symon Petliura, and take over the city. Other villages and towns fall. A bitter struggle with major losses blazes about Berdychiv. But Shchors' revolutionary forces remain victorious.
However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack.
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