''It Happened in the
Donbas
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'' (russian: Это было в Донбассе, Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945
Soviet
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drama film
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directed by
Leonid Lukov
Leonid Davydovich Lukov (russian: Леонид Давидович Луков; 2 May 1909 – 24 April 1963) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1930 and 1963. Leonid Lukov was named People's Artist of the ...
based on a screenplay by
Sergei Antonov
Sergei Antonov (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Сергей Антонов) (11 July 1948 – 1 August 2007) was a Bulgarians, Bulgarian airline sales representative, representative accused of involvement in an assassination attempt against Pope J ...
and
Mikhail Blajman.
Produced by
Soyuzdetfilm
Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed at ...
.
Plot
The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...
against the
Nazi invaders in the German-occupied
Donbas
The Donbas or Donbass (, ; uk, Донба́с ; russian: Донба́сс ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. Parts of the Donbas are controlled by Russian separatist groups as a result of the Russo-Ukrai ...
and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Cast
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Tatiana Okunevskaya
Tatiana Kirillovna Okunevskaya (russian: Татьяна Кирилловна Окуневская; 3 March 1914 – 15 May 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actress.
Life
Okunevskaya was born in Zavidovo, Moscow Governorate, in 1914. She was act ...
as Natasha Loginova
*
Yelena Tyapkina Yelena or Jelena is a feminine given name. It is the Russian form of Helen, written Елена in Russian.
Notable people called Yelena
* Yelena Afanasyeva (born 1967), former Russian athlete who competed in the 800 metres
*Yelena Vladimiro ...
as Darya Timofeevna
*
Vera Altayskaya
Vera Vladimirovna Altayskaya (russian: Ве́ра Влади́мировна Алта́йская) (21 May 1919 – 28 December 1978) was a Soviet actress known for her roles in children's fairy tale films and comedies.
Born in Petrograd, she wa ...
as Marusya Shelkoplyas
*
Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
*
Ivan Pelttser
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...
as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
*
Ivan Pereverzev
Ivan Fyodorovich Pereverzev (russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Переве́рзев; 3 September 1914 – 23 April 1978) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1975).
Filmography
* '' The Convey ...
as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
*
Mariya Yarotskaya
Mariya is a variation of the feminine given name Maria.
People
* Mariya Abakumova (born 1986), Russian Olympic javelin thrower
* Mariya Agapova (born 1997), Kazakhstani mixed martial arts fighter
* Mariya Alyokhina (born 1988), Russian politica ...
as old woman
*
Vladimir Balashov
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Names
* Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name
* Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name
* Volodymyr for the Ukr ...
as Pavlik Bazanov
*
Sergei Komarov
*
Aleksei Konsovsky
Aleksey Anatolyevich Konsovsky (russian: Алексей Анатольевич Консовский; 28 January 1912 – 20 July 1991) was a Soviet and Russian film, stage and voice actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1976).
Biography
He wa ...
*
Alexander Mikhailov as member of the
YCL
*
Boris Poslavsky
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People
* Boris (given name), a male given name
*:''See'': List of people with given name Boris
* Boris (surname)
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as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
*
Heinrich Greif
Otto Karl Heinrich Greif (11 March 1907 – 16 July 1946) was a German actor and social activist.
Biography
Heinrich Greif was born 11 March 1907 in Dresden.
Since 1926, he studied in the studio at the theater Volksbühne under the directio ...
as official labor exchange and the
Gestapo
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The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...
*
Vyacheslav Dugin Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav (russian: Вячеслав, Vjačeslav ; uk, В'ячеслав, V"jačeslav ), is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацл ...
as Anton
*
Inna Makarova
Inna Vladimirovna Makarova (russian: И́нна Влади́мировна Мака́рова; 28 July 1926 – 25 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She grew up in Novosibirsk. In 1948 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cine ...
as partisan
*
Yevgeny Morgunov
Yevgeny Alexandrovich Morgunov (russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Моргуно́в; April 27, 1927 – June 25, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and script writer, Merited Artist of Russian SFSR (1978 ...
as underground worker
*
Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker
References
External links
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1945 films
Soviet black-and-white films
1940s Russian-language films
Gorky Film Studio films
1940s war drama films
Soviet war drama films
Russian war drama films
Films directed by Leonid Lukov
1945 drama films
Russian black-and-white films
Russian World War II films
Soviet World War II films
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