Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, 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.
Лев Свердлин
as Chubenko
Степан Шкурат
as Yakim Nedolya
Petro Masokha
as Ivan Polovets
Михаил Трояновский
as Musiy Polovets
Vladimir Osvetsimsky
as General Emelsdorf
Mykola Braterskyi
as Overko Polovets
Grigori Dolgov
as Gurkovsky
Dmytro Milyutenko
as
Yelena Kuzmina
as Oksana
Nikolai Orlov
as
