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 (known as Ataman Zelyony (, literally "Green")).

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

Soviet historical drama films

Soviet war drama films

Soviet silent films

Soviet black-and-white films

1920s war drama films

1920s historical drama films

Ukrainian war drama films

Ukrainian historical drama films

1926 drama films

1926 films

Ukrainian black-and-white films

Silent war drama films

Soviet-era Ukrainian films