It Happened in the Donbas

It Happened in the Donbas
It Happened in the Donbas
Directed by	Leonid Lukov
Written by	Sergei Antonov; Mikhail Bleiman
Cinematography	Aleksandr Gintsburg
Music by	Nikita Bogoslovsky
Distributed by	Soyuzdetfilm
Release date	11 July 1945;
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

It Happened in the Donbas (Russian: Это было в Донбассе, romanized: Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman.^[1] Produced by Soyuzdetfilm.

Plot[edit]

The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbas and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

Cast[edit]

Tatiana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova
Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna
Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas
Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
Mariya Yarotskaya as old woman
Vladimir Balashov as Pavlik Bazanov
Sergei Komarov
Aleksei Konsovsky
Alexander Mikhailov as member of the YCL
Boris Poslavsky as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
Heinrich Greif as official labor exchange and the Gestapo
Vyacheslav Dugin as Anton
Inna Makarova as partisan
Yevgeny Morgunov as underground worker
Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker

References[edit]

^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 387.

External links[edit]

It Happened in the Donbas at IMDb
It Happened in the Donbas at AllMovie

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[leyda-1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 387.

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