Rainbow (1944)
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).
Director:
Mark Donskoy
Writer:
Wanda Wasilewska
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Nina Alisova as Pusya |
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Nataliia Uzhvii as Olena Kostyuk |
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Yelena Tyapkina as Fedosya |
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Hans Klering as Kurt Werner |
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Anton Dunaiskyi as Evdokim Petrovich Ohapka |
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Valentyna Ivashova as Olga |
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Anna Lisyanskaya as Malyuchikha |
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Vladimir Chobur as Serhiy Kravchenko |
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Mykola Braterskyi as Petro Haplyk |
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Emma Malaya as |
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Yelizaveta Khutornaya as Grokhachikha |
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Viktor Bubnov as Comrade of lieutenant Kravchenko (uncredited) |
| Camera | Boris Monastyrsky | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Mark Donskoy | Director |
| Writing | Wanda Wasilewska | Screenplay |
| Sound | Lev Shvarts | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Oleksandr Babiy | Sound Director |
| Camera | Mykhailo Chorny | Camera Operator |
| Art | Valentina Khmelyova | Production Design |
| Directing | Rafail Perelstein | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Evgeniy Zilbershtein | Assistant Director |
| Editing | N. Gorbenko | Editor |
| Camera | S. Berkovskiy | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | D. Suvorov | Assistant Camera |
| Costume & Make-Up | R. Melnik | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolay Korobko | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | P. Fedorenko | Makeup & Hair |
| Production | Aleksandr Yablochnik | Producer |
| Production | M. Vaynberger | Administration |
| Directing | Leonid Man | First Assistant Director |