Shchors () is a 1939 Soviet biopic film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. 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). Synopsis Cheered up by the revolutionary zeal, the courage and the energy of their leader Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors, in 1919 the peasants and workers groups gather in the devastated by the civil war in Ukraine, to defeat the foreign conquerors and enemies of the revolution. Shchors and his troops advance to Kiev, the seat of the bourgeois nationalists under their leader Symon Petliura, and take over the city. Other villages and towns fall. A bitter struggle with major losses blazes about Berdychiv. But Shchors' revolutionary forces remain victorious. However, it does not take long until a new danger threatens: this time the Polish Pans enter Ukraine, and General Dragomirov marches to Kiev. Shchors, however, gathers the revolutionary forces of the country and brings them to a victorious counter-attack. Cast Yevgeny Samoylov as Nikolay Shchors (as E. Samoylov) Ivan Skuratov as Bozhenko Luka Lyashenko as Severin Chernyak / Grandpa Chizh (as L. Lyashenko) Yu. Titov as Burdenko - Commander P. Krasilich as Gavrichenko - Commander Aleksandr Grechany as Mikhaylyuk - Commander (as A. Grechanyy) Nikolai Makarenko as Antonyuk - Commander (as N. Makarenko) Yuriy Bantysh as Soldier (as Yu. Bantysh) Dmitry Barvinsky as Soldier (as D. Barvinskiy) Dmitry Kostenko as Soldier (as D. Kostenko) References External links (English subtitles) 1930s biographical drama films Soviet biographical drama films Russian biographical drama films 1939 films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Alexander Dovzhenko Films directed by Yuliya Solntseva Films set in Ukraine Dovzhenko Film Studios films Russian Civil War films 1930s Russian-language films Soviet-era Ukrainian films Russian-language Ukrainian films Ukrainian biographical films 1939 drama films Russian black-and-white films Ukrainian drama films