Word: savchenko
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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When Director Igor Savchenko set out to make his picture, he took his company to a small central Ukrainian hamlet named Svirki. Some of the townsfolk had been guerrillas in World War I; none had forgotten the Germans. None would play German soldiers; those extras had to be imported from Kiev...
Many an old peasant improved Savchenko's script by offering him a real sequence from the last war. One, after watching for some time, politely informed the director that the sequence was not quite correct. He said tomatoes now grew where his barn had been, that the Germans had taken his cow and knocked out his wife with a rifle butt. In other particulars, however, the scene was faithful. Then he added: "We killed the German near the tree over there." There is no more make-believe in Svirki. The Germans took it again last year. Now everyone...