Word: svirki
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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 has a guerrilla role...
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