The Taras Family (1945)

Name: The Taras Family
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 1945-10-15
Duration: 82 min
Cast: Amvrosii Buchma, Venyamin Zuskin, Lidia Kartashova, Daniil Sagal, Yevgeni Ponomarenko

A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kyiv. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory.

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Released 1945-10-15 · 82 min · War, Drama

Directed by Mark Donskoy

Cast

Amvrosii Buchma as Taras Yatsenko
Venyamin Zuskin as Aron Davidovich
Lidia Kartashova as Euphrosyne
Daniil Sagal as Stepan
Yevgeni Ponomarenko as Andrey
Mikhail Troyanovsky as Nazar Ivanovich Omelchenko
Kateryna Osmialovska as Valya
Mykhailo Vysotskyi as German engineer
Sergei Troitsky as Policeman (uncredited)
Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi as Maxim
Aleksey Vatulya as Ignat Nesoglasny
Anton Dunaisky as Panas
Grigori Dolgov as Petushkov
Samuel Stolerman as Artist
Viktor Khalatov as German commandant