Shchors (film)

Shchors
Directed byOleksandr Dovzhenko
Yuliya Solntseva
Written byOleksandr Dovzhenko
StarringYevgeni Samojlov
Ivan Skuratov
Aleksandr Grechanyy
Aleksandr Khvylya
Nikolai Makarenko
Pyotr Masokha
CinematographyYuri Goldabenko
Yuriy Yekelchik
Edited byO. Skripnik
Music byDmitri Kabalevsky
Distributed byKiev Film Studio
Release date
  • January 1939 (1939-01)
Running time
92 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Shchors (Russian: Щорс) is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin,[1] the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors.[2] Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov (1912–2006).

  1. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 353–355.
  2. ^ Emilia Kosnichuk (January 2008). Киноправда "Щорса" и кирпичи, из которых она строилась (in Russian). 4 (399). Ezhenedelnik 2000. Archived from the original on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2008-11-04. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)