The Taras Family

1945 WarDrama 107 minutes Directed by Mark Donskoy

About The Taras Family

In occupied Kiev, the Taras family and their neighbors resist the Germans. The occupiers try to reopen a munitions plant and push Soviet workers to collaborate.

Cast & crew

More about The Taras Family

Mark Donskoy directed it. Boris Gorbatov wrote it. Bentsion Monastyrsky photographed it. Lev Shvarts wrote the music. The Dovzhenko Film Studios released it in 1945. It runs 107 minutes. Amvrosy Buchma and Veniamin Zuskin are billed. The Russian title is Непокорённые. It was also released as Unvanquished and Unconquered. It follows Donskoy's Rainbow.

Themes

  • An occupied city
  • A family that will not collaborate
  • A munitions plant the Germans want open
  • Taras
  • Donskoy
  • Kiev
  • Nepokorennye

Look

Bentsion Monastyrsky photographed the occupied city and the plant.

Music

Lev Shvarts wrote the music.

Notes

  • Buchma plays in the Taras household.
  • The English titles Unvanquished and Unconquered are the same picture.
  • Donskoy made it after Rainbow, and the catalog calls it a semi-sequel.

Scenes

  • The Germans order the plant reopened.
  • The Taras family and the neighbors refuse the collaboration.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (1945 Непокорённые.webm)