On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields
A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.
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On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields
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Status
Released
Release Date
Jan 1, 1995
Runtime
1h 6m
Genres
Drama
Original Title
На чорных лядах
Production Companies
Belarusfilm
Director
Valery Ponomaryov
Description
A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.