Badgers

Badgers

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  • Cast
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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 1, 1968

Runtime

4h 24m

Genres

Drama, History

Original Title

Барсуки

Production Companies

Central Television USSR

Director

Viktor Ryzhkov

Description

Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits...