at Grishka, who tries to not notice because he is standing guard. Cast Leonid Danilov as Grishka T. Kotelnikova as Gelka Mstislav Kotelnikov as Stepan N. Amenev as Drabsky L. Dedintsev as Yazstremski Vladimir Korsh as Adjutant Notes In the original ending scenes, top state official Josef Adamovich, Wilhelm Knorin, and Alexander Cherviakov appeared. They were included in the movie by director Yuri Tarich because they had assisted Tarich. Ten years later, they were determined to be “enemies of the people.” Cherviakov and Knoryn shot themselves before they could be arrested. Adamovich was arrested and sentenced to death. Tarich was then ordered to re-edit the film, removing their scene(s). Film posters compared Forest Story's star to America's Douglas Fairbanks. "Soon! See the Belarusian Douglas Fairbanks – Leonid Danilov in the first national film Forest Life!" The film was not allowed to be shown in Austria, Latvia or Czechoslovakia. The picture was shot in Pryluki, near Minsk, in the authentic surroundings of the events and with the participation of villagers who fought against the Polish troops during the Civil War. Vladimir Korsh-Sablin, who later became a well known Belgoskino director on his own, plays the role of "Adjutant" and was an assistant director on the film. The film is the first ever produced by Belgoskino. The head of the Belarusian National Film Museum, Igor Avdeev, has written that the fact that “Forest Story” was the first completed and shown Belgoskino production, is "indisputable." Reviews Summaries of the reviews are listed in A Catalog of All Belarusian Films, 1926-1976, by Igor Avdeev and Larissa Zaritsa. They range from lukewarm to positive. Some complain about a lack of authenticity, but others laud it as an outstanding beginning of Belarusian cinema. References External links IMDB: Forest Story 1927 films 1920s Russian-language films Belarusian drama films Soviet-era Belarusian films Belarusfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet drama films 1927 drama films