Rainbow

Rainbow (; translit. Raiduga, ; translit. Raduga), is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based on her novel, Tęcza. The film depicts life in a German-occupied village in Ukraine from the viewpoint of the terrorized villagers. Cast Elena Tyapkina as Feodosya Hans Klering as Captain Kurt Werner Nina Alisova as Pusya Natalya Uzhviy as Olena Kostyuk Anna Lisyanskaya as Malyuchikha Nikolai Bratersky as Petr Gaplik, collaborator mayor Vitya Vinogradov as Mishka Malyuchik Anton Dunaysky as Grandfather Evdokim Okhabko Vera Ivashova as Olga, Pusya's sister Vladimir Chobur as Lt. Kravchenko Plot The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olena (Nataliya Uzhviy), a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis. Eventually, the villagers rise up against their oppressors, but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, electing instead to force the surviving Nazis to stand trial for their atrocities in a postwar "people's court." (It is also implied that those who collaborated with the Germans will be dealt with in the same way).