Ukraine in Flames

Ukraine in Flames (1943)

Битва за нашу Советскую Украину

A 1943 Soviet war propaganda film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkiv. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

Date of release
1943-04-01
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva

Interesting facts

Ukraine in Flames is a 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

Development

Dovzhenko's diary contained notes for the film, originally conceived as a conversation between a concentration camp inmate and a camp guard, both Ukrainians, having a conversation through a barbed wire fence. In the proposed final scene of the film, they seize each other, the guard tries to chokes the prisoner and the prisoner refuses to let go for fear of being shot by the guard, and are found dead the next morning in each other's arm, wrapped i…

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