It Happened in the Donbas (Russian: Это было в Донбассе, romanized: Eto bylo v Donbasse) is a 1945 Soviet war drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman. The film was produced by Soyuzdetfilm and released after the conclusion of the Second World War, on which it is based.
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Plot
The film is about the Soviet youth who fought in the Second World War (referred to in Russia as the Great Patriotic War) against the German invasion in the occupied Donbas region.
Cast
Tatiana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova
Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna
Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas
Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
Mariya Yarotskaya as old woman
Vladimir Balashov as Pavlik Bazanov
Sergei Komarov
Aleksei Konsovsky
Alexander Mikhailov as member of the YCL
Boris Poslavsky as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
Heinrich Greif as official labor exchange and the Gestapo
Vyacheslav Dugin as Anton
Inna Makarova as partisan
Yevgeny Morgunov as underground worker
Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker