The Taras Family

The Taras Family

Release date : October 15, 1945
Runtime : 1h 22m
Countries of origin : Soviet Union /
Original Language : Russian /
Director : Mark Donskoy /
Production companies : Dovzhenko Film Studios /
October 15, 1945 1h 22m Soviet Union War Russian More
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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.
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Mikhail Vysotsky
German engineer
Amvrosi Buchma
Taras Yatsenko
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Nazar Ivanovich Omelchenko
Sergei Troitsky
Policeman (uncredited)

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  • title:The Taras Family
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1945
  • Runtime:1h 22m
  • Genres: War · Drama ·
  • Countries of origin: Soviet Union ·
  • Original Language: Russian ·
  • Director: Mark Donskoy /
  • Writers: Boris L. Gorbatov · Mark Donskoy ·
  • Production companies: Dovzhenko Film Studios ·
  • Overview: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.
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