Shchors (film)

Shchors
Shchors
Directed by	Alexander Dovzhenko; Yuliya Solntseva
Written by	Alexander Dovzhenko
Starring	Yevgeni Samojlov; ; ; Aleksandr Khvylya; ;
Cinematography	;
Edited by	O. Skripnik
Music by	Dmitri Kabalevsky
Distributed by	Kiev Film Studio
Release date	January 1939;
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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).

Synopsis[]

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.

Cast[]

Yevgeny Samoylov as Nikolay Shchors (as E. Samoylov)
as Bozhenko
as Severin Chernyak / Grandpa Chizh (as L. Lyashenko)
as Burdenko - Commander
as Gavrichenko - Commander
as Mikhaylyuk - Commander (as A. Grechanyy)
as Antonyuk - Commander (as N. Makarenko)
as Soldier (as Yu. Bantysh)
as Soldier (as D. Barvinskiy)
as Soldier (as D. Kostenko)

References[]

^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 353–355.
^ Emilia Kosnichuk (January 2008). Киноправда "Щорса" и кирпичи, из которых она строилась (in Russian). 4 (399). Ezhenedelnik 2000. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-11-04. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

External links[]

Shchors at AllMovie
Shchors on YouTube (English subtitles)
Shchors at IMDb

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[1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 353–355.

[2] Emilia Kosnichuk (January 2008). Киноправда "Щорса" и кирпичи, из которых она строилась (in Russian). 4 (399). Ezhenedelnik 2000. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-11-04. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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Shchors

Directed by	Alexander Dovzhenko Yuliya Solntseva
Written by	Alexander Dovzhenko
Starring	Yevgeni Samojlov Aleksandr Khvylya
Cinematography
Edited by	O. Skripnik
Music by	Dmitri Kabalevsky
Distributed by	Kiev Film Studio
Release date	January 1939 (1939-01)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian