Guerrilla Brigade

Name: Guerrilla Brigade
Director: Ihor Savchenko
Genre: War, Drama, History
Released: 1939-07-29
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Lev Sverdlin, Stepan Shkurat, Petro Masokha, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Vladimir Osvetsimsky

Original title: Всадники

5.8(5)19391h 34mRU

Directed by Ihor Savchenko

Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War I, 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.