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.
Credits
The Taras Family Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Mikhail Troyanovsky
He was 56, 75 years old when he died
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as Nazar Ivanovich Omelchenko |
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Daniil Sagal
He was 35, 92 years old when he died
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as Stepan |
The Taras Family Crew
| Name |
Department |
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Mark Donskoy as Director. He was 44 (80) years old when He died
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Directing |
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Mark Donskoy as Screenplay. He was 44 (80) years old when He died
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Writing |
