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Aleksei Kravchenko
Flyora Gayshun
Olga Mironova
Glasha
Liubomiras Laucevicius
Kosach
Vladas Bagdonas
Rubezh
Jüri Lumiste
Obersturmführer
Viktors Lorencs
Sturmbannführer
Kazimir Rabetsky
Village Headman
Yevgeni Tilicheyev
Gezhel
Aleksandr Berda
Chief of Staff of the Partisan Detachment
G. Velts
Medical NCO
Viktor Vasiliev
German
Igor Gnevashev
Jew
Vasiliy Domrachyov
Little Policeman
Gennadiy Yelkin
Flyora's friend
Evgeniy Kryzhanovskiy
Partisan with Glasses
N. Lisichenok
Viktor Manaev
Partisan
Takhir Matyullin
Elderly Partisan
Pyotr Merkuryev
Gleb Vasiliyevich
Valentin Mishatkin
Policeman
Gennady Matytskiy
Kazik
Yevgeniya Polyakova
Anatoly Slivnikov
Partisan Disguised as a German Soldier
Georgiy Strokov
Policeman
Tatyana Shestakova
Flyora's Mother
Oleg Shapko
Partisan
Nina Evdokimova
Mother (uncredited)
Valery Kravchenko
Kosach (voice) (uncredited)
Aleksandra Ravenskikh
German Woman in the Car (uncredited)
Aleksandr Solopov
Part-bit (uncredited)
Igor Bezyaev
Partisan (uncredited)
Yakov Ovchukov-Suvorov
German with a Tambourine (uncredited)
Svetlana Zelenkovskaya
Village Girl (uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Sep 03 2023

This has got to be the perfect antidote to the Hollywood treatment of a war film. It's bleak, grim and repulsive - and all in a great, intentional, cinematographic fashion. The thread centres around the young "Flyora" (a superb effort from Aleksey Kravchenko) who is taken from his Belorussian family farm at gunpoint (along with anything it's possible to eat) by the invading Nazi troops. What now ensues follows this young man as he escapes his captors, finds an old rifle and determines to join up with the communists who are fighting almost insurmountable odds to thwart their encroaching, heavily...