page_title: Rainbow (1944 film)
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: Rainbow (1944 film) / Plot
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Beschrijving Opname uit Russische film Raduga (de Regenboog) Regie: Mark Donskoi, 1944. Uitgebracht in Nederland: 1944. Documenttype foto Vervaardiger Merkelbach, Atelier J. Collectie Collectie Atelier J. Merkelbach Datering 1944 Inventarissen http://archief.amsterdam/archief/10164/36410 Afbeeldingsbestand 010003038436 Generated with Dememorixer
context_page_description: Rainbow, is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based on her novel, Tecza. The film depicts life in a German-occupied village in Ukraine from the viewpoint of the terrorized villagers.
context_section_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 way).
caption: Phtogoraph by "Atelier J. Merkelbach"
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