Shchors (film)
Shchors (Russian: Щорс) is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva.Commissioned by Joseph Stalin,[1] the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors.Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, the courage and the energy of their leader Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers groups gather in the devastated by the civil war in Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution.However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev.[3] The film was made during Stalin's Great Purge during many of Mykola Shchors fellow fighters were executed after being convicted of being traitors.