On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields

На чорных лядах

A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.

Director

Валерий Пономарёв

Screenplay

Василь Быков

Screenplay

Валерий Пономарёв

Status

Released

Release date

01/01/1995

Original language

Belarusian