They Were Actors

They Were Actors

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 12, 1981

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

War, Drama, Adventure

Original Title

Они были актёрами

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Director

Georgi Natanson

Description

The plot of the film is based on real events of the Great Patriotic War. When the Nazis occupied Crimea, the actors of the drama theater of the city of Simferopol entered the underground group Sokol. The activities of the underground members were diverse: they put up leaflets with information from Soviet Information Bureau, compiled maps showing the strategic objects of the enemy, and supplied the partisans with medicines. On April 10, 1944, 3 days before the liberation of Simferopol, the underground members died from enemy bullets — they were shot on the outskirts of the city.