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Conscience (1968)

Genre : War, Drama

Runtime : 1H 15M

Director : Volodymyr Denysenko

Synopsis

The action takes place during World War II and the German occupation of Ukraine, in a small village. During clashes on the road, the village boy Vasyl, one of the local partisans, killing a German officer. The occupants take hostages and vow to execut all village inhabitants will beed, including old people and children, if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them. The problem of choice faces the fellow villagers and Vasyl himself. The film is striking it its black-and-white imagery unfolding not so much against, as together with, the emotionally intense music by Pederecki, Bakki, and Skoryk. Conscience is absolutely free of Soviet ideological clichés obligatory for the WWII genr, and was immediately banned by the Soviet censorship. It was first restored in 1989 by the Dovzhenko Studio and in 2011 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture.

Actors

Anatoliy Sokolovskyi
Anatoliy Sokolovskyi
Василь
Mykola Gudz
Mykola Gudz
Ріхтер
Nikifor Kolofidin
Nikifor Kolofidin
Якимов
Viktor Malyarevych
Viktor Malyarevych
епізодична роль
Valentina Grishokina
Valentina Grishokina
Volodymyr Denysenko
Volodymyr Denysenko
Oleksandr Denysenko
Oleksandr Denysenko
Viacheslav Kryshtofovych
Viacheslav Kryshtofovych
Halyna Dovhozvyaha
Halyna Dovhozvyaha
Halyna Nekhaievska
Halyna Nekhaievska
Mykola Oliinyk
Mykola Oliinyk
Nina Reus
Nina Reus

Crews

Volodymyr Denysenko
Volodymyr Denysenko
Director
Vasyl Zemlyak
Vasyl Zemlyak
Writer
Oleksandr Deryazhnyi
Oleksandr Deryazhnyi
Director of Photography
Volodymyr Denysenko
Volodymyr Denysenko
Writer
Myroslav Skoryk
Myroslav Skoryk
Music

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