It Happened in the Donbas (Russian: Это было в Донбассе, romanized: Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman.[1] Produced by Soyuzdetfilm.
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| Directed by | Leonid Lukov |
| Written by | Sergei Antonov Mikhail Bleiman |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Gintsburg |
| Music by | Nikita Bogoslovsky |
| Distributed by | Soyuzdetfilm |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
editThe film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbas and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Cast
edit- Tatiana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova
- Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna
- Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas
- Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
- Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
- Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
- Mariya Yarotskaya as old woman
- Vladimir Balashov as Pavlik Bazanov
- Sergei Komarov
- Aleksei Konsovsky
- Alexander Mikhailov as member of the YCL
- Boris Poslavsky as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
- Heinrich Greif as official labor exchange and the Gestapo
- Vyacheslav Dugin as Anton
- Inna Makarova as partisan
- Yevgeny Morgunov as underground worker
- Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker
References
edit- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 387.
External links
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