Guerrilla Brigade 1939

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.

Cast

Lev Sverdlin

Stepan Shkurat

Petro Masokha

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Vladimir Osvetsimsky

Mykola Braterskyi

Grigori Dolgov

Dmytro Milyutenko

Yelena Kuzmina