A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.
The North Star or Armored Attack 1943 HD | War film by Lewis Milestone | Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan & Erich von Stroheim
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In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year just ended in June 1941. Five young friends set out for a walking trip to Kiev, but their travels are brutally interrupted when they are suddenly attacked by German planes, in the first wave of the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union.
The North Star (also known as Armored Attack in the US) is a 1943 war film produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Lillian Hellman and featured production design by William Cameron Menzies. The film starred Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan and Erich von Stroheim. The music was written by Aaron Copland, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe. The film also marked the debut of Farley Granger.
The film is about the resistance of Ukrainian villagers, through guerrilla tactics, against the German invaders of Ukraine. The film was an unabashedly pro-Soviet Union propaganda film at the height of the war.
Plot
In June 1941 Ukrainian villagers are living in peace. As the schools break up for vacation, a group of friends decide to travel to Kiev for a holiday. To their horror they find themselves attacked by German aircraft, part of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Eventually their village itself is occupied by the Nazis. Meanwhile men and women take to the hills to form partisan militias.
The full brutality of the Nazis is revealed when a German doctor (Erich von Stroheim) uses the village children as a source of blood for transfusions into wounded German soldiers. Some children lose so much blood that they die. A famous Russian doctor (Walter Huston) discovers this and informs the partisans, who prepare to strike back. They launch a cavalry assault on the village to rescue the children. The Russian doctor accuses the German doctor of being worse than the convinced Nazis, because he has used his skills to support them. He then shoots him. The peasants join together, and one girl envisions a future in which they will “make a free world for all men”.
Cast
- Anne Baxter as Marina Pavlova
- Dana Andrews as Kolya Simonov
- Walter Huston as Dr. Pavel Grigorich Kurin
- Walter Brennan as Karp
- Ann Harding as Sophia Pavlova
- Jane Withers as Clavdia Kurina
- Farley Granger as Damian Simonov
- Erich von Stroheim as Dr. von Harden
- Dean Jagger as Rodion Pavlov
- Carl Benton Reid as Boris Stepanich Simonov
- Ann Carter as Olga Pavlova
- Esther Dale as Anna
- Ruth Nelson (actress) as Nadya Simonova
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