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Synopsis: In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year is just ending in June 1941. Five young friends set out for a walking trip to Kiev, but their travels are brutally interrupted when they are suddenly attacked by German planes, in the first wave of the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union. When the village itself is attacked and occupied, most of the men flee to the hills to form a guerrilla unit. The others resist the Nazis as well as possible, but soon the village is placed under the command of a Nazi doctor who begins using the town's children as a source of constant blood transfusions for wounded German soldiers. Meanwhile, the small group of young persons tries desperately to take a supply of firearms to the guerrillas.
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Production: American Pop Classics
 
IMDB:
6.0
UNRATED
Year:
1943
108 min
148 Views


what will happen.

I don't have to remind you

that we are people

with a noble history.

You are expected to

carry on that history

with complete devotion

and self-sacrifice.

I think you'll do that.

And now... Have a happy summer.

From great moscow to

the farthest border

From the black sea

to the sea of white

There is peace where

once there was disorder

There is dawn where

once was blackest night

Not a voice but

sings in exultation

Not a heart but

beats for liberty

Side by side, the

peoples of our nation

Build a world where

man is ever free

Soviet lands will

give to us forever

Free of fear or strife

To be worthy is

our one endeavor

As a live a new

and glorious life

You know, Marina...

I-I can't explain it, but,

well, I-I almost wish

we weren't having

this supper tonight.

Oh, goodness knows

I usually love it.

But -- but it

interferes, really,

with the trip, if you

know what I mean.

Too many good things at once.

Mm. I felt it, too.

I didn't want

anything to happen.

Just the trip. Nothing else.

Oh, well. We really won't

celebrate tonight.

We'll just eat supper and act

like it was any other evening

and we were home

with the family.

You know what? I'm not

going to sing tonight.

Even if everyone asks

me, I won't sing.

And don't you sing either.

Mnh-mnh.

Loading time at last is over

Loading time at last is over

Let the workers mingle

Let the locomotive labor

While we dance and

join our neighbor

Clavdia, Clavdia,

take it easy

Kolya likes her thinner

If to him you

want to live up

Every day you've got to

give up lunch and dinner

Lunch and dinner

There's Damian

and his Marina

There's Damian

and his Marina

Love has got

them floored yet

Sixteen years of

fond attention

Is beyond our comprehension

Aren't you bored yet?

There's Damian

and his Marina

Romeo and Juliet

Cupid seems to

have them leaping

But their teachers should be

keeping them in school yet

Them in school yet

I wish it was

tomorrow morning.

Kolya says we'll go to the

theater when we get to Kiev.

All we have to do is

apply for the tickets.

We'll have three

whole days in Kiev.

We shall see everything.

It's been a good year.

Scholarship to the university,

of course, means the most.

There was a medal

for marksmanship.

And now this vacation.

We'll be separated for a year.

You'll be getting a scholarship

the following year.

But it's this year

I'm thinking about.

That's a long time.

I don't think it

is at our age.

You don't think so?

How strange.

What are you saying, Marina?

Nothing. I don't want

to talk about it.

It's odd you don't think a year

away from me is a long time.

It doesn't worry you?

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Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party. As a playwright, Hellman had many successes on Broadway, including Watch on the Rhine, The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children's Hour and The Little Foxes. She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay, which starred Bette Davis and received an Academy Award nomination in 1942. Hellman was romantically involved with fellow writer and political activist Dashiell Hammett, author of the classic detective novels The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, who also was blacklisted for 10 years until his death in 1961. The couple never married. Hellman's accuracy was challenged after she brought a libel suit against Mary McCarthy. In 1979, on The Dick Cavett Show, McCarthy said that "every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." During the libel suit, investigators found errors in Hellman's popular memoirs such as Pentimento. They said that the "Julia" section of Pentimento, which had been the basis for the Oscar-winning 1977 movie of the same name, was actually based on the life of Muriel Gardiner. Martha Gellhorn, one of the most prominent war correspondents of the twentieth century, as well as Ernest Hemingway's third wife, said that Hellman's remembrances of Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War were wrong. McCarthy, Gellhorn and others accused Hellman of lying about her membership in the Communist Party and being an unrepentant Stalinist. more…

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