Badgers

Badgers

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 1, 1968

Runtime

4h 24m

Genres

Drama, History

Original Title

Барсуки

Production Companies

Main editorial board of literary and dramatic programs 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...