It Happened in the Donbas

1945 Soviet film

It Happened in the Donbas

Directed by| Leonid Lukov
Written by| Sergei Antonov
Mikhail Bleiman
Cinematography| Aleksandr Gintsburg
Music by| Nikita Bogoslovsky
Distributed by| Soyuzdetfilm

Release date

* 11 July 1945 (1945-07-11)

Running time

| 102 minutes
Country| Soviet Union
Language| Russian

It Happened in the Donbas (Russian: Это было в Донбассе, romanized: Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945 Soviet war drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman.[1] Produced by Soyuzdetfilm.

## Plot

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The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbas and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

## Cast

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* Tatiana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova
* Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna
* Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas
* Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
* Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
* Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
* Mariya Yarotskaya as old woman
* Vladimir Balashov as Pavlik Bazanov
* Sergei Komarov
* Aleksei Konsovsky
* Alexander Mikhailov as member of the YCL
* Boris Poslavsky as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
* Heinrich Greif as official labor exchange and the Gestapo
* Vyacheslav Dugin as Anton
* Inna Makarova as partisan
* Yevgeny Morgunov as underground worker
* Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker

## References

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1. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 387.

## External links

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* It Happened in the Donbas at IMDb

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