It Happened in the Donbass (1945)
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 Donbass and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.
Director: Leonid Lukov
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Tatyana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova |
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Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna |
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Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas |
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Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin |
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Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin |
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Vladimir Balashov as |
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Aleksey Konsovskiy as |
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Mikhail Kuznetsov as |
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Inna Makarova as |
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Yevgeni Morgunov as |
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Aleksandr Mikhajlov as Boris |
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Yelena Izmailova as Lisa |
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Heinrich Greif as |
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Anatoly Yeliseyev as Yefimchik |
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Ariadna Lysak as Schoolgirl |
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Elizaveta Lilina as Kulygin's Wife |
| Directing | Leonid Lukov | Director |
| Writing | Boris Gorbatov | Writer |
| Writing | Mikhail Bleiman | Writer |
| Writing | Sergei Antonov | Writer |
| Writing | Boris Gorbatov | Book |
| Camera | Aleksandr Gintsburg | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Nikita Bogoslovskiy | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Leon Kann | Sound Director |
| Sound | David Blok | Conductor |
| Editing | Lidiya Zhuchkova | Editor |
| Directing | Vladimir Sukhobokov | Assistant Director |
| Directing | V. Rozenshteyn | Assistant Director |
| Directing | E. Peterson | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | V. Solomonovich | Costume Design |
| Art | Sergei Kozlovsky | Production Design |
| Art | Sergei Kuznetsov | Production Design |
| Art | Morits Umanskiy | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Tolkunova | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | M. Vaynberger | Production Assistant |
| Camera | Aleksey Selyankin | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Z. Karlyuchenko | Sound Assistant |
| Production | Pavel Danilyants | Producer |