''Ukraine in Flames'' (russian: Битва за нашу Советскую Украину, translit. ''Bitva za nashu Sovetskuyu Ukrainu'', lit. "Battle for our Soviet Ukraine") is a 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director

Oleksandr Dovzhenko Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko or Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko ( uk, Олександр Петрович Довженко, ''Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko''; russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, ''Aleksandr Petro ...

and

Yuliya Solntseva Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (russian: Ю́лия Ипполи́товна Со́лнцева; born Yuliya Ippolitovna Peresvetova, 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for st ...

. It is Dovzhenko's second

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

documentary, and dealt with the

Battle of Kharkov The Battle of Kharkov was any one of four World War II battles in and near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv (known in Russian as ''Kharkov''). In usage the term is sometimes indistinct, perhaps meaning the collection of all fighting at Kharkov inclu ...

. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

Plot

The plot tells of the events of autumn 1943 on the southern fronts of the German-Soviet war. The film differs from its peers in that for the first time viewers of the military chronicle heard the "living voices" of soldiers, a huge number of philosophical generalizations written by O. Dovzhenko in the form of lyrical reflections and voiced by Leonid Khmara. The film includes footage of the trophy German newsreel.

External links

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''New York Times'' review
published on April 3, 1944 1943 films Films directed by Alexander Dovzhenko Films directed by Yuliya Solntseva Films set in Ukraine Soviet documentary films Soviet-era Ukrainian films Soviet World War II propaganda films Soviet black-and-white films Ukrainian black-and-white films Documentary films about Ukraine Russian-language Ukrainian films 1943 documentary films Ukrainian documentary films {{WWII-documentary-film-stub