Rainbow

Rainbow

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 24, 1944

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

War, Drama

User Score

49%

Original Title

Радуга

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Director

Mark Donskoy

Description

The German conquerors are above nothing, not even the slaughter of small children, to break the spirit of their Soviet captives. Suffering more than most is Olga (Nataliya Uzhviy), a Soviet partisan who returns to the village to bear her child, only to endure the cruelest of arbitrary tortures at the hands of the Nazis. Eventually, the villagers rise up against their oppressors-but unexpectedly do not wipe them out, electing instead to force the surviving Nazis to stand trial for their atrocities in a postwar "people's court." (It is also implied that those who collaborated with the Germans will be dealt with in the same evenhanded fashion).