Release Date

15 Oct, 1945

Runtime

01:22: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Russian filmmaker Mark Donskoi, of "The Gorky Trilogy" fame, was responsible for the postwar Soviet drama The Taras Family (originally Nepokorenniye, and also released as Unvanquished and Unconquered). A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kiev. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory. The film is at its most grimly effective in a long sequence wherein the Nazis conduct a search for Jewish escapees, culminating in a horribly graphic re-creation of the slaughter of the Jews at Babi Yar. While Donskoi was critically lambasted for his cinematic "sloppyiness" during this sequence (hand-held camera, rapid cuts etc.), it can now be seen that he was attempting a realistic, documentarylike interpretation of this infamous Nazi atrocity.

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Actors

Mikhail Vysotsky

Amvrosi Buchma

Даниил Сагал

Yevgeni Ponomarenko

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Ekaterina Osmyalovskaya

Сергей Троицкий

Crew

Boris L. Gorbatov

Mark Donskoy

Mark Donskoy