The Unvanquished (1945)

Name: The Unvanquished
Rating: 3.7

3.7 of 5 from 45 ratings

1h 22min

Not released

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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.
Actors:: Amvrosi Buchma, Venyamin Zuskin, Lidiya Kartashyova, Daniil Sagal, Yevgeni Ponomarenko, Vera Slavina, Mariya Samosvat, Nikolay Zimovets, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Ekaterina Osmyalovskaya, Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskiy, Aleksey Vatulya, Anton Dunaysky, Grigoriy Dolgov, Samuil Stollerman, Mikhail Vysotsky, Viktor Khalatov, Hans Klering, Dmitriy Kapka, Vadim Zakurenko
Aka:: The Taras Family / Nepokoryonnye
Genres:: Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
Countries:: Soviet Union