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Shors

Original title: Shchors
  • 19391939
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Evgeniy Samoylov in Shors (1939)
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Biography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kiev.Biography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kiev.Biography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kiev.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
207
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    • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
    • Yuliya Solntseva(co-director)
    • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Stars
    • Evgeniy Samoylov
    • Ivan Skuratov
    • Luka Lyashenko
    • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
    • Yuliya Solntseva(co-director)
    • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Stars
    • Evgeniy Samoylov
    • Ivan Skuratov
    • Luka Lyashenko
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    • 2User reviews
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    Evgeniy Samoylov
    Evgeniy Samoylov
    • Nikolay Shchors
    • (as E. Samoylov)
    Ivan Skuratov
    Ivan Skuratov
    • Bozhenko
    Luka Lyashenko
    • Severin Chernyak
    • (as L. Lyashenko)
    • …
    Yu. Titov
    • Burdenko - Commander
    P. Krasilich
    • Gavrichenko - Commander
    Aleksandr Grechanyy
    Aleksandr Grechanyy
    • Mikhaylyuk - Commander
    • (as A. Grechanyy)
    Nikolai Makarenko
    • Antonyuk - Commander
    • (as N. Makarenko)
    Yuriy Bantysh
    • Soldier
    • (as Yu. Bantysh)
    Dmitriy Barvinskiy
    • Soldier
    • (as D. Barvinskiy)
    Dmitriy Kostenko
    Dmitriy Kostenko
    • Soldier
    • (as D. Kostenko)
    Pyotr Masokha
    Pyotr Masokha
    • Soldier
    • (as P. Masokha)
    P. Radetskiy
    • Young Soldier
    P. Tatarenko
    • Soldier
    Valentin Dukler
    Valentin Dukler
    • Isaak Tyshler - Commissar
    • (as V. Dukler)
    Fyodor Ishchenko
    Fyodor Ishchenko
    • Petro Chizh
    • (as F. Ishchenko)
    Nina Nikitina
    Nina Nikitina
    • Nastya - Chizh's bride
    • (as N. Nikitina)
    Dmitri Milyutenko
    Dmitri Milyutenko
    • Weaver
    • (as D. Milyutenko)
    • …
    Anna Borisoglebskaya
    • Weaver
    • (as A. Borisoglebskaya)
      • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
      • Yuliya Solntseva(co-director)
      • Aleksandr Dovzhenko
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    • Trivia
      During the four year delay between the film's original planning and it's final release, two different actors who were cast in the leading role were replaced, until finally the third actor was allowed to keep his role.
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      Featured in Eshenepozner: Naum Kleiman (2020)

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    3/10
    Sad relics of Soviet Socialist Realism
    An earthy, epic historical drama set during World War I and the Russian Civil War, Shchors is a biographical portrait of the partisan leader and communist Nikolai Shchors, one of the few indisputable Bolshevik icons of Ukrainian origin. The work was commissioned by Stalin himself, who asked Dovzhenko to "give us a Ukrainian Chapayev" - a reference to the popular (though mediocre) 1934 film by Sergei and Georgi Vasiliev depicting the heroic exploits of a folksy Russian Red Army commander. The prolonged production of Shchors proved a nightmare for Dovzhenko, who was forced to submit every creative decision and every episode for high-level political approval, and who found himself accused of Ukrainian nationalism by Stalin's increasingly paranoid henchmen. There is one remarkable, picturesque sequence of burial. Nothing else. Shchors represents the glory of socialist-realist restrictions imposed upon an artist, the ultimate product of Zhdanovist canons. Nothing left of Dovzhenko's dynamic energy and fervent poetry featured in his best picture, 'Earth.'
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    • jgcorrea
    • Jun 30, 2003

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    • Release date
      • November 20, 1939 (United States)
      • Soviet Union
      • Russian
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    • Production company
      • Kievskaya Kinostudiya (Kiev Film Studio)
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    • 1 hour 32 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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