Raduga . The Rainbow
Duration: 01:33:00 The movie depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village at the beginning of World War 2. 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 Russian partisan who returns to t...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian |
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Kiev Film Studio
1944
Soviet Union |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:06713ead-e536-485e-99d9-0adbd2245df6 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:33:00
The movie depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village at the beginning of World War 2. 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 Russian 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, electing 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). |
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| Published: | 1944 |