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 Olena, 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.
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) |
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Vasiliy Maksimov as German Officer |
| 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 |