| Shchors | |
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| Directed by | Oleksandr Dovzhenko Yuliya Solntseva |
| Written by | Oleksandr Dovzhenko |
| Starring | Yevgeni Samojlov Ivan Skuratov Aleksandr Grechanyy Aleksandr Khvylya Nikolai Makarenko Pyotr Masokha |
| Cinematography | Yuri Goldabenko Yuriy Yekelchik |
| Edited by | O. Skripnik |
| Music by | Dmitri Kabalevsky |
| Distributed by | Kiev Film Studio |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Shchors (Russian:«Щорс») is a 1939 Sovietbiopic film directed byOleksandr Dovzhenko andYuliya Solntseva. Commissioned byJoseph Stalin,[1] the film is a biography of thepartisan leader and UkrainianBolshevikNikolai Shchors.[2] Shchors is played byYevgeny Samoylov (1912–2006).
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- devastatedUkraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. Shchors and his troops advance toKiev, the seat of the bourgeois nationalists under their leaderSymon Petliura, and take over the city. Other villages and towns fall. A bitter struggle with major losses blazes aboutBerdychiv. But Shchors' revolutionary forces remain victorious.
However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time thePolish 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.
Petro Kralyuk of theNational University of Ostroh Academy claimed in 2020 that this film was ordered to be made byJoseph Stalin in order to makeMykola Shchors a mythical hero.[3] The script had to be reworked more than once, throwing out already filmed episodes of the film and shooting new ones.[3] The film was made during Stalin'sGreat Purge during which many of Mykola Shchors fellow fighters were executed after being convicted of being traitors.[3] The stress this caused lead to directorOleksandr Dovzhenko having a heart attack.[3]
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