Chetniks! (1943)
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Género : Bélica, Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 13M
Director : Louis King
Escritor : Jack Andrews, Edward E. Paramore Jr.
Sinopsis
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Yugoslavian guerilla fighter General Draja Mihailovitch. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
Partisans resist the terror of Italian fascists and Serbian Chetniks in the South-East of Bosnia and Herzegovina during WWII.
Segunda Guerra Mundial. Corre el año 1941 y los judíos de Europa Oriental están siendo masacrados a millares. En la Bielorrusia ocupada, tres hermanos logran escapar de una muerte segura y se refugian en los densos bosques de alrededor de su casa, que conocen desde su infancia. Allí inician su desesperada lucha contra los nazis. Su lucha se convertirá en algo mucho más importante, una forma de vengar las muertes de sus seres queridos al salvar a miles de personas.
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Upon returning home at war's end, a young lieutenant discovers that his family has been murdered by the Nazis. It's all the handiwork of a treasonous "Chetnik," who during the war worked against the partisans on behalf of the Germans. In bitter retaliation, the lieutenant sets about to decimate the Chetnik's family. He stops short, however, when he realizes that the sins of the fathers are not always passed down to the innocent children.
Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
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Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, dos partisanos soviéticos se apartan del grupo, que está hambriento, para ir a una pequeña granja a coger provisiones. Pero, como los alemanes han llegado primero, tendrán que seguir recorriendo territorio ocupado para encontrar otro sitio donde abastecerse.
Un tren armado por las fuerzas nazis está aterrorizando una zona rural en Yugoslavia. Las fuerzas aliadas deciden enviar un comando para pararles los pies.
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Down under the constant attacks of the German and Bulgarian forces, headquarters one of the partisan detachment in the midst of a severe winter and snow and difficult terrain, with many wounded, he decided to leave the mountain Jastrebac. Gvozden, a peasant from that area, brave warrior, opposes such a decision, was gets ready to leave the unit before detachment. In the interests of discipline, however, Gvozden was convicted and executed on the spot, although it regrets the whole squad.
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