''The Trypillia Tragedy'' (russian: Трипольская трагедия, Tripolskaya tragedia) is a 1926 Soviet
drama film by Alexander Anoschenko-Anoda.
Plot
The film is based on a historical incident, the massacre of a
Komsomol
The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...
special detachment during the
Russian Civil War in Ukraine. In 1919, during
Anton Denikin's offensive, the Komsomol forces faced the irregular troops of the Army of Independent Soviet Ukraine, led by the turncoat rebel
Daniil Ilich Terpilo
Danylo Ilkovych Terpylo,, ''Danilo Il'kovich Terpylo''russian: Дании́л Ильи́ч Терпи́ло, ''Daniil Il'ich Terpilo'' widely known as the Green Ataman, ''Otaman Zelenyy''russian: атаман Зелёный, ''Ataman Zelyonyy'' ...
(known as
Ataman
Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; Russian: атаман, uk, отаман) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military comman ...
Zelyony (russian: Зелёный, literally "Green")).
Zelyony's men surrounded the Komsomol forces at the village of
Trypillia in Ukraine south of Kyiv, trapped them on the steep banks of the
Dnieper River, and slaughtered them.
Cast
*Yevgenia Petrova - ''Kate''
*
Boris Bezgin - ''Secretary of the Komsomol District Committee''
*Vera Danilevich - ''Komsomol fighter''
*Vladimir Shakhovskoy - ''resident of the village of Trypillia''
*George Astafev - ''seminarian Daniel, member of Zelyony's gang''
*E. Timofeev - ''young Komsomol leader
Mikhail Samoylovich Ratmansky''
Soviet historical drama films
Soviet war drama films
Soviet silent films
Soviet black-and-white films
1920s war drama films
1920s historical drama films
Ukrainian war drama films
Ukrainian historical drama films
1926 drama films
1926 films
Ukrainian black-and-white films
Silent drama films
Soviet-era Ukrainian films
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