It Happened in the Donbas

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. The film was produced by Soyuzdetfilm and released after the conclusion of the Second World War, on which it is based.

Plot

The film is about the Soviet youth who fought in the Second World War (referred to in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) against the German invasion in the occupied Donbas region.

Cast

• 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

External links

• It Happened in the Donbas at IMDb