''Shchors'' (russian: Щорс) is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by

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. Commissioned by

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, the film is a biography of the

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leader and Ukrainian

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

Nikolai Shchors. Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov (1912–2006).

Synopsis

Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, the courage and the energy of their leader Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers groups gather in the devastated by the civil war in Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. Shchors and his troops advance to

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, the seat of the bourgeois nationalists under their leader

Symon Petliura Symon Vasylyovych Petliura ( uk, Си́мон Васи́льович Петлю́ра; – May 25, 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He became the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army and the President of the Ukrainian People' ...

, and take over the city. Other villages and towns fall. A bitter struggle with major losses blazes about Berdychiv. But Shchors' revolutionary forces remain victorious. However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack.

Cast

* Yevgeny Samoylov as Nikolay Shchors (as E. Samoylov) * Ivan Skuratov as Bozhenko * Luka Lyashenko as Severin Chernyak / Grandpa Chizh (as L. Lyashenko) * Yu. Titov as Burdenko - Commander * P. Krasilich as Gavrichenko - Commander * Aleksandr Grechany as Mikhaylyuk - Commander (as A. Grechanyy) * Nikolai Makarenko as Antonyuk - Commander (as N. Makarenko) * Yuriy Bantysh as Soldier (as Yu. Bantysh) * Dmitry Barvinsky as Soldier (as D. Barvinskiy) * Dmitry Kostenko as Soldier (as D. Kostenko)

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* * (English subtitles) * 1930s biographical drama films Soviet biographical drama films Russian biographical drama films 1939 films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Alexander Dovzhenko Films directed by Yuliya Solntseva Films set in Ukraine Dovzhenko Film Studios films Russian Civil War films 1930s Russian-language films Soviet-era Ukrainian films Russian-language Ukrainian films Ukrainian biographical films 1939 drama films Russian black-and-white films Ukrainian drama films {{bio-film-stub