The Trypillia Tragedy
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''The Trypillia Tragedy'' () is a 1926 Soviet
drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
by Alexander Anoschenko-Anoda.


Plot

The film is based on a historical
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, the massacre of a
Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, usually known as Komsomol, was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it w ...
special detachment during the
Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...
in Ukraine. In 1919, during
Anton Denikin Anton Ivanovich Denikin (, ; – 7 August 1947) was a Russian military leader who served as the Supreme Ruler of Russia, acting supreme ruler of the Russian State and the commander-in-chief of the White movement–aligned armed forces of Sout ...
's offensive, the Komsomol forces faced the irregular troops of the Army of Independent Soviet Ukraine, led by the turncoat rebel Daniil Ilich Terpilo (known as
Ataman Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; ; ) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commanders of the Cossack armies. The Ukra ...
Zelyony (, literally "Green")). Zelyony's men surrounded the Komsomol forces at the village of
Trypillia Trypillia () is a village in Obukhiv Raion (district) of Kyiv Oblast in central Ukraine, with 2,800 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2005). It belongs to Ukrainka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Trypillia lies about south from Kyiv o ...
in Ukraine south of Kyiv, trapped them on the steep banks of the
Dnieper River The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ...
, and slaughtered them.


Cast

*Yevgenia Petrova - ''Kate'' * Boris Bezgin - ''Secretary of the Komsomol District Committee'' *Vera Danilevich - ''Komsomol fighter'' *Vladimir Shakhovskoy - ''resident of the village of Trypillia'' *George Astafev - ''seminarian Daniel, member of Zelyony's gang'' *E. Timofeev - ''young Komsomol leader Mikhail Samoylovich Ratmansky'' 1926 films 1926 drama films 1920s war drama films 1920s historical drama films 1920s Soviet films 1920s Russian-language films Soviet historical drama films Russian historical drama films Soviet war drama films Russian war drama films Soviet silent films Soviet black-and-white films Silent war drama films Soviet-era Ukrainian films Russian-language historical drama films Russian-language war drama films


References

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