The Undefeated (2000 film)
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Vitaliy Zymovets
| The Undefeated | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Oles Yanchuk |
| Written by | Vasyl Portiak |
| Produced by | Oles Yanchuk |
| Cinematography | Oleksiy Zolotarov Vitaliy Zymovets |
| Music by | Volodymyr Hronsky |
| Distributed by | Dovzhenko Film Studios |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Languages | Ukrainian Russian Polish German |
| Budget | $1 million |
The Undefeated (Ukrainian: «Нескорений», romanized: Neskorenyi) is a 2000 Ukrainian film by Oles Yanchuk, a producer and director previously praised by The New York Times and Time magazine for his 1991 film Famine-33.
In 1950, long after World War II has ended, a fight continues behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain: as the Ukrainians keep fighting Soviet forces, General Roman Shukhevych (Hryhoriy Hladiy) is forced by brutal circumstances to lead a guerrilla war as part of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
The film explores Shukhevych, both as a military leader and a family man. In the end, Shukhevych was unable to defeat the Soviet forces and was killed in a targeted assassination by the MGB, but the UPA re-enforce Ukrainian nationalism as an underground force until the end of the Cold War.
