Directed by Vyacheslav Viskovsky Productioncompany Sevzapkino Country Soviet Union | Written by Boris Leonidov Release date 1924 Cinematography Fridrikh Verigo-Darovsky | |
Starring Nikolay DirinMikhail LomakinNikolai SimonovValeri Solovtsov | ||
Red Partisans (Russian: Красные партизаны, Krasnye partizany) is a 1924 Soviet silent war film directed by Vyacheslav Viskovsky.
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The film's art direction was by Vladimir Yegorov and Yevgeni Yenej.
Plot
In Siberia under occupation of the Whites, on the orders of Admiral Kolchak house searches and mass arrests of the Bolsheviks take place. The underground party committee entrusts Bolshevik worker Tokarev who managed to avoid arrest organization of a guerrilla unit in the taiga.
Meanwhile the White Guards occupy one of the Siberian villages, Zubarevka. Violence and looting commences. Peasant Stepan Dolgov when protecting his wife from harassment of an officer kills him and goes into the taiga. Here he meets with Tokarev. Later they are joined by a group of peasants who have fled from Kolchak. Tokarev and Dolgov form a small guerrilla unit made out of fugitives ...