Shchors

Shchors (1939)

Щорс

Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, courage and energy of their leader, Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers' groups gathered in the civil war- devastated Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack.

Date of release
1939-05-02
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (9)
Runtime
2h 20m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Alexander Dovzhenko

Casting

Interesting facts

Shchors is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin, the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors. Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov (1912–2006).

Production

Petro Kralyuk of the National University of Ostroh Academy claimed in 2020 that this film was ordered to be made by Joseph Stalin in order to make Mykola Shchors a mythical hero. The script had to be reworked more than once, throwing out already filmed episodes of the film and shooting new ones. The film was made during Stalin's Great Purge during which many of Mykola Shchors fellow fighters were executed after being convicted of being traitors.

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