The Trypillia Tragedy
The Trypillia Tragedy is a 1926 Soviet drama film by Alexander Anoschenko-Anoda.
Plot
The film is based on a historical incident, the massacre of a Komsomol special detachment during the Russian Civil War in Ukraine. In 1919, during Anton Denikin's offensive, the Komsomol forces faced the irregular troops of the Army of Independent Soviet Ukraine, led by the turncoat rebel Daniil Ilich Terpilo.Zelyony's men surrounded the Komsomol forces at the village of Trypillia in Ukraine south of Kyiv, trapped them on the steep banks of the Dnieper River, and slaughtered them.
Cast
- Yevgenia Petrova - Kate
- Boris Bezgin - Secretary of the Komsomol District Committee
- Vera Danilevich - Komsomol fighter
- Vladimir Shakhovskoy - resident of the village of Trypillia
- George Astafev - seminarian Daniel, member of Zelyony's gang
- E. Timofeev - ''young Komsomol leader Mikhail Samoylovich Ratmansky''