Shchors (film)

Shchors
Directed by	Alexander Dovzhenko Yuliya Solntseva
Written by	Alexander Dovzhenko
Starring	Yevgeni Samojlov Ivan Skuratov Aleksandr Grechanyy Aleksandr Khvylya Nikolai Makarenko Pyotr Masokha
Music by	Dmitri Kabalevsky
Cinematography	Yuri Goldabenko Yuriy Yekelchik
Edited by	O. Skripnik
Distributed by	Kiev Film Studio
Release dates	January 1939
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Shchors (Russian: Щopc) is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Alexander Dovzhenko. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin, the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors.^[1] 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 Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. Shchors and his troops advance to Kiev, the seat of the bourgeois nationalists under their leader Symon Petliura, 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.

References

1. Emilia Kosnichuk (January 2008). Киноправда "Щорса" и кирпичи, из которых она строилась (in Russian). 4 (399). Ezhenedelnik 2000. Retrieved 2008-11-04.

External links

• Shchors at AllMovie
• Shchors on YouTube (English subtitles)
• Shchors at the Internet Movie Database