The Taras Family

A semi-sequel to Donskoi's Raduga (1944), the story is set in Nazi-occupied Kiev. The drama focusses on the travails of a typical Soviet family and on the efforts by the Germans to force the reopening of a local munitions factory.

• Mark DonskoyDirector
• Mark DonskoyScreenplay
• Lev ShvartsOriginal Music Composer
• Boris GorbatovScreenplay

• Amvrosii BuchmaTaras Yatsenko
• Venyamin ZuskinAron Davidovich
• Lidia KartashovaEuphrosyne
• Daniil SagalStepan
• Yevgeni PonomarenkoAndrey
• Mikhail TroyanovskyNazar Ivanovich Omelchenko
• Kateryna OsmialovskaValya
• Mykhailo VysotskyiGerman engineer
• Sergei TroitskyPoliceman (uncredited)
• Ivan Kononenko-KozelskyiMaxim
• Aleksey VatulyaIgnat Nesoglasny
• Anton DunaiskyPanas