

The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olga, a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis. Eventually, the villagers rise up against their oppressors-but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, choosing instead to force the surviving Nazis to stand trial for their atrocities in a postwar "people's court." (It is also implied that those who collaborated with the Germans will be dealt with in the same evenhanded fashion).
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Cast

Nina Alisova
Pusya

Nataliia Uzhvii
Olena Kostyuk

Yelena Tyapkina
Fedosya

Hans Klering
Kurt Werner
Anton Dunaiskyi
Evdokim Petrovich Ohapka

Valentyna Ivashova
Olga

Anna Lisyanskaya
Malyuchikha

Vladimir Chobur
Serhiy Kravchenko
Mykola Braterskyi
Petro Haplyk

Emma Malaya
Yelizaveta Khutornaya
Grokhachikha
Viktor Bubnov
Comrade of lieutenant Kravchenko (uncredited)
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