Badgers (movie)
Барсуки- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Viktor Ryzhkov , Lidiya Ishimbaeva
- Production companies: Main editorial board of literary and dramatic programs Central Television USSR
- Genre: Drama, History
- Release date: 3/1/1968
- Run time: 264 min.
Movie description
Two village boys - brothers Semyon and Pavel - serve a Moscow merchant-shopkeeper. They face harsh exploitation and hard forced labor. The brothers' life paths diverge. Unable to withstand the merchant's bullying, Pavel goes to the factory, becomes a worker, and later a professional revolutionary. Semyon remains in service. In the post-revolutionary period, Semyon, having been to the front and returning to the village, joined the kulaks, brutally dealt with representatives of the Soviet government, becoming the head of a gang of “badgers” hiding in the forests. A Red Army detachment led by Pavel is sent to fight the bandits...
