Guerrilla Brigade

Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, 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.

Director: Ihor Savchenko

Cast: Lev Sverdlin, Stepan Shkurat, Petro Masokha, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Vladimir Osvetsimsky, Mykola Braterskyi, Grigori Dolgov, Dmytro Milyutenko

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.