Ukraine in flames! Victory in Soviet Ukraine

Ukraine in Flames (1943). An impassioned account of "how the steppes were sowed with rage," Dovzhenko's film ranges across Ukraine's forests and plains, chronicling the horrors of German invasion and the gathering forces of Ukrainian resistance. In scenes that recall the director's masterpiece Earth, peasants newly delivered from German occupation rebuild their lives, sowing grain across fields freshly cleared of corpses, as surviving peasant women speak bitterly of the crimes committed by Nazi occupiers. Praised by film scholar Jay Leyda as "an astonishingly personal movie ... an inspiration to every artist who works in the documentary film," Ukraine in Flames shows the faces of war rarely seen. Digitally restored from original 35mm Lavender prints, possibly the highest quality film elements known to exist. 2 videodiscs (141 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.