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, 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).
as Pusya
as Olena Kostyuk
as Fedosya
as Kurt Werner
as Evdokim Petrovich Ohapka
as Olga
as Malyuchikha
as Serhiy Kravchenko
as Petro Haplyk
as Grokhachikha
as Comrade of lieutenant Kravchenko (uncredited)
