It Happened in the Donbas

1945 Soviet Union film
  • 11 July 1945 (1945-07-11)
Running time
102 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

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.

Plot

The 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

  • 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

  1. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 387.
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  • It Happened in the Donbas at AllMovie


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