
About
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia 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.
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8.233/10

CinemaSerf
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 t... read more
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Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko
Flyora Gayshun

Olga Mironova
Glasha

Liubomiras Laucevicius
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 Policeman
Gennadiy Yelkin
Flyora's friend

Evgeniy Kryzhanovskiy
Partisan with Glasses
N. Lisichenok

Viktor Manaev
Partisan

Takhir Matyullin
Elderly Partisan

Pyotr Merkuryev
Gleb Vasiliyevich
Valentin Mishatkin
Policeman

Gennady Matytskiy
Kazik
Yevgeniya Polyakova

Anatoly Slivnikov
Partisan Disguised as a German Soldier

Georgiy Strokov
Policeman

Tatyana Shestakova
Flyora's Mother

Oleg Shapko
Partisan
Nina 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)
Director

Elem Klimov
Director
Creator
Ales Adamovich
Story

Elem Klimov
Screenplay
Ales Adamovich
Screenplay