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).
New Horizons was originally released as Vyborskaya Storona, which translates as The Vyborg Side. Codirected and cowritten by Gregory Kozintsev, the film is the final chapter in the director's "Maxim Trilogy". Like the earlier entries, New Horizons recreates the "awakening" of Soviet Russia under the banner of Marxism, as seen through the eyes of Everyman hero Maxim (Boris Chirk...
1942年的一次战役中,苏军与数倍的德军遭遇,一连连长阿里克塞·谢维林一次反冲锋时与部队失去联系,路上遇上一个身受重伤的德军捷克籍军医,他是被德军强征入伍内,在军医弥留之即,谢维林答应冒名顶替他的身份,并帮他送信到在斯洛伐克的母亲家中。在那里阿里克塞·谢维林加入了当地的一支国际游击队,并很快成为游击队的指挥官。
Sergei Parajanov's 89 minute color feature also known as "Ukrainskaya rapsodiya" about 2 lovers separated during World War II.