Shchors (film)

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Щopc (Shchors)
Directed by Olexandr Dovzhenko
Yuliya Solntseva
Written by Olexandr Dovzhenko
Music by Dmitri Kabalevsky
Cinematography Yuri Goldabenko
Yuriy Yekelchik
Editing by O. Skripnik
Release date(s) 1939 (Soviet Union)
Running time 92 min.
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Shchors (Russian and Ukrainian: Щopc), (1939), is a Soviet film by Ukrainian director Olexandr Dovzhenko. Commissioned by Joseph Stalin, the film is a biography of the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors. Shchors is played by Yevgeny Samoylov (1912-2006).