Rainbow

Directed by Mark Donskoy

Produced by Kievskaya Kinostudiya
Written by Wanda Wasilewska
Starring Nina Alisova
Natalya Uzhviy
Vera Ivashova
Yelena Tyapkina
Hans Klering
Music by Lev Schwartz
Cinematography Boris Monastyrsky
Production
company
Kiev Film Studio
Distributed by Artkino
Release date(s) 1944
Running time 93 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Rainbow (1944 film)
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Rainbow (Russian: ; translit. Raduga), is a 1944 Soviet war film
directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based
on her novel,
[1]
Tecza. The film depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village in
Ukraine at the beginning of World War II from the view point of the
terrorized villagers.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links
Plot
The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of
small children,
[1]
to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering
more than most is Olga (Nataliya Uzhviy), a Soviet partisan who returns
to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary
tortures at the hands of the Nazis.
[2]
Eventually, the villagers rise up
against their oppressors-but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, electing instead to force the surviving Nazis to stand trial for
their atrocities in a postwar "people's court." (It is also implied that those who collaborated with the Germans will be dealt with
in the same evenhanded fashion).
[3]
Reception
"Brilliantly acted by virtually everyone in the cast, Rainbow is a remarkable achievement, one that deserves to be better known
outside of Russia."
[4]
It has been described as the most powerful and effective of the Soviet propaganda films produced during
the war.
[2]
The film was recommended to President Franklin Roosevelt by the American ambassador in Moscow in early 1944.
Roosevelt cabled Ambassador W. Averell Harriman in Moscow on March 14, 1944 with the message that he had viewed the
film, and found it so "beautifully and dramatically presented that it required little translation." FDR stated that he hoped it could
be shown to the American public.
References
1. ^
a

b
Stites, Richard (1992). Russian popular culture: entertainment and society since 1900. Cambridge University Press.
p. 114. ISBN 978-0-521-36986-2.
2. ^
a

b
Short, Kenneth R. M. (1983). Film & radio propaganda in World War II. Taylor & Francis. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-7099-
2349-7.
3. ^ [1] (http://www.allmovie.com/work/raduga-107206)
4. ^ [2] (http://www.allmovie.com/work/raduga-107206)
External links
Rainbow (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037205/) at the Internet Movie Database
Rainbow (http://www.allmovie.com/movie/v107206) at AllMovie
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