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The Cuckoo's Children

The Cuckoo's Children

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 3, 1991

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Drama, War

Original Title

Кукушкины дети

Production Companies

Belarusfilm

Director

Aleksandr Moroz

Description

About the plight of Soviet orphanage children that during the war the Nazis were taken to Germany diversantskoy for training activities in the territory of the USSR. In 1943 Gemfurte near Kassel (Germany) School for Soviet teenagers was created using Abverkomande-203, which were taken from the children's homes of Smolensk and Orsha. About this school, there are real documents, alive and witnesses of those events.