The Taras Family
Russian filmmaker Mark Donskoi, of "The Gorky Trilogy" fame, was responsible for the postwar Soviet drama The Taras Family (originally Nepokorenniye, and also released as Unvanquished and Unconquered). A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kiev. 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. The film is at its most grimly effective in a long sequence wherein the Nazis conduct a search for Jewish escapees, culminating in a horribly graphic re-creation of the slaughter of the Jews at Babi Yar. While Donskoi was critically lambasted for his cinematic "sloppyiness" during this sequence (hand-held camera, rapid cuts etc.), it can now be seen that he was attempting a realistic, documentarylike interpretation of this infamous Nazi atrocity.
Year: 1945
Studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Director: Mark Donskoy
Cast: Amvrosii Buchma, Venyamin Zuskin, Lidia Kartasheva, Daniil Sagal, Yevgeni Ponomarenko, Mikhail Troyanovsky
Crew: Boris Gorbatov (Writer), Mark Donskoy (Director), Mark Donskoy (Screenplay), Lev Shvarts (Original Music Composer), Boris Monastyrsky (Director of Photography), Morits Umanskiy (Production Design)
Runtime: 82 minutes
Release: Oct 15, 1945
IMDb: 6.10/10 by 6 users
Popularity: 2
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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