''Red Partisans'' (russian: Красные партизаны, Krasnye partizany) is a 1924 Soviet silent

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directed by Vyacheslav Viskovsky.Christie & Taylor p.432 The film's art direction was by

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and Yevgeni Yenej.

Plot

In Siberia under occupation of the

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, on the orders of Admiral Kolchak house searches and mass arrests of the

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take place. The underground party committee entrusts Bolshevik worker Tokarev who managed to avoid arrest organization of a guerrilla unit in the

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruc ...

. Meanwhile, the White Guards occupy one of the Siberian villages, Zubarevka. Violence and looting commences. Peasant Stepan Dolgov when protecting his wife from harassment of an officer kills him and goes into the taiga. Here he meets with Tokarev. Later they are joined by a group of peasants who have fled from Kolchak. Tokarev and Dolgov form a small guerrilla unit made out of fugitives ...

Cast

* Nikolay Dirin as Officer * Mikhail Lomakin * Nikolai Simonov * Valeri Solovtsov

References

Bibliography

* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.

External links

* 1924 films 1920s war drama films Soviet war drama films Soviet silent films 1920s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films 1924 drama films Silent war drama films 1920s Soviet films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub