It Happened in the Donbas

It Happened in the Donbas (Это было в Донбассе) is a 1945 Soviet drama film directed by Leonid Lukov based on a screenplay by Sergei Antonov and Mikhail Blajman. Produced by Soyuzdetfilm.

Plot
The film is about the Soviet youth who fearlessly fight in the years of the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invaders in the German-occupied Donbas and continue the work of their fathers, who in their time defended the Soviet Union.

Cast

 * Tatiana Okunevskaya as Natasha Loginova
 * Yelena Tyapkina as Darya Timofeevna
 * Vera Altayskaya as Marusya Shelkoplyas
 * Yelena Izmailova as Lisa
 * Ivan Pelttser as Afanasy Petrovich Kulygin, miner
 * Ivan Pereverzev as Stepan Andreyevich Ryabinin
 * Mariya Yarotskaya as old woman
 * Vladimir Balashov as Pavlik Bazanov
 * Sergei Komarov
 * Aleksei Konsovsky
 * Alexander Mikhailov as member of the YCL
 * Boris Poslavsky as Nikolay Sergeyevich Loginov, a doctor
 * Heinrich Greif as official labor exchange and the Gestapo
 * Vyacheslav Dugin as Anton
 * Inna Makarova as partisan
 * Yevgeny Morgunov as underground worker
 * Mikhail Kuznetsov as underground worker