Rainbow (1944 film)

• Nina Alissowa: Pusja
• Natalya Uschwi: Oljona Kostjuk
• Valentina Iwaschowa Olga
• Jelena Tjapkina: Fedosja
• Anna Lisjanskaja: Maljutschicha
• Hans Klering: Captain Kurt Werner

Raduga is a Soviet film made in 1944. Black and white film was made during the Second World War, directed by Mark Donskoi, a student of Eisenstein, based on the novella Rainbow over the Dnieper by Wanda Wasilewska, who also wrote the screenplay.

The film historian Rob Edelman saw in the " angry drama" a possible influence on the Italian neorealism of the 1950s.

Action

The film is set in 1943 occupied by the German Wehrmacht Ukraine. The pregnant farmer's wife Olena fighting as a partisan, while her sister, although wife of an officer in front of the Red Army, the mistress of the German local commander is.

At the birth of their child Olena returns to her home village and falls to the local commander 's hands. He tries to physical and psychological violence to break Olena's will, so she reveals the positions of the partisans. However, not succeed. In the re-conquest of the village by Soviet troops who had returned husband takes revenge on his wife for her infidelity. The surviving Germans to be fed after the war a " people's court ".

Reviews

• Bosley Crowther praised in the New York Times of 23 October 1944, the production and directorial style, the enormous realism producing. Raduga is a powerful, heartbreaking film.

• Hal Erickson writes in the All Movie Guide, the film offers consistently brilliant interpretive services and earn outside Russia dissemination.