Rainbow - 1944

Rainbow 1944 Directed by Mark Donskoy Радуга

The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, 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. Eventually, the villagers rise up against their oppressors-but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, choosing 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).

Country Soviet Union

Production Country Soviet Union

Language Russian

Spoken Language Russian

Gneres Drama , War

Production Company Dovzhenko Film Studios

Release Date 24 January 1944

93 mins