1939 · drama · war · historical
Shchors
Directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko2h 20m1939
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.
Our read: Shchors (1939) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · war · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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