The cruelest side of war.
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
- 8.2
- 1985
- Released
- 2h 22m
Aleksei Kravchenko
Flyora Gayshun
Olga Mironova
Glasha
Liubomiras Laucevičius
Kosach
Vladas Bagdonas
Rubezh
Jüri Lumiste
Obersturmführer
Viktors Lorencs
Sturmbannführer
Kazimir Rabetsky
Village Headman
Yevgeni Tilicheyev
Gezhel
Aleksandr Berda
Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment
G. Velts
Medical NCO
Viktor Vasiliev
German
Igor Gnevashev
Jew
Vasiliy Domrachyov
Little PolicemanGennadiy Yelkin
Flyora's friend
Evgeniy Kryzhanovskiy
Partisan with GlassesN. Lisichenok
Viktor Manaev
Partisan
Takhir Matyullin
Elderly Partisan
Pyotr Merkuryev
Gleb VasiliyevichValentin Mishatkin
Policeman
Gennady Matytskiy
KazikYevgeniya Polyakova
Anatoly Slivnikov
Partisan Disguised as a German Soldier
Georgiy Strokov
Policeman
Tatyana Shestakova
Flyora's Mother
Oleg Shapko
PartisanNina Evdokimova
Mother (uncredited)
Valery Kravchenko
Kosach (voice) (uncredited)
Aleksandra Ravenskikh
German Woman in the Car (uncredited)Aleksandr Solopov
Part-bit (uncredited)
Igor Bezyaev
Partisan (uncredited)Yakov Ovchukov-Suvorov
German with a Tambourine (uncredited)
Svetlana Zelenkovskaya
Village Girl (uncredited)
Released
ru
$20,929,648.00
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- #war crimes
- #insanity
- #world war ii
- #surrealism
- #wehrmacht
- #teenage girl
- #atrocity
- #genocide
- #russian army
- #mine field
- #horrors of war
- #premature aging
- #byelorussia
- #disturbed
- #children in wartime
Reviews
This has got to be the perfect antidote to the Hollywood treatment of a war film. It's bleak, grim and repulsive - and all in a great, intentional, cinematographic fashion. The thread centres around the young "Flyora" (a superb effort from Aleksey Kravchenko) who is taken from his Belorussian family farm at gunpoint (along with anything it's possible to eat) by the invading Nazi troops. What now e