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The Cuckoo's Children
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The Cuckoo's Children

1991-03-03 · 85 min · ★ 5.0

Drama · War

About the plight of Soviet orphanage children that during the war the Nazis were taken to Germany diversantskoy for training activities in the territory of the USSR. In 1943 Gemfurte near Kassel (Germany) School for Soviet teenagers was created using Abverkomande-203, which were taken from the children's homes of Smolensk and Orsha. About this school, there are real documents, alive and witnesses of those events.

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Directors
Aleksandr Moroz
Production companies
Belarusfilm
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Dmitry Bezmaternykh
Maksim Gavrilov
Boris NevzorovBoris Nevzorov
Alexander LabushAlexander Labush
Valery ShushkevichValery Shushkevich
Valeri FilatovValeri Filatov
Vladimir GritsevskiyVladimir Gritsevskiy
Vladimir MischanchukVladimir Mischanchuk
Aleksandr Kukareko
Mikhail PetrovMikhail Petrov
Stanislav Vilkin

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