Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas


Chetniks The Fighting Guerrillas is a war film made by Twentieth Century Fox in 1943. The film starred Philip Dorn, Anna Sten, and Martin Kosleck.

In the opening scene, German troops and tanks are shown invading the Kingdom of Yugoslavia while bombers attack the capital Belgrade. When the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, and Bulgarians invade Yugoslavia onApril 1941, Serbian army colonel Draa Mihailovi forms a band of guerrillas known as the Chetniks, who launch a resistance movement against the Axis occupation. Mihailovis forces then engage in an attack on the German and Italian forces, forcing them to employ seven Axis divisions against them.The Chetniks capture an Italian supply convoy. Mihailovi then radios German headquarters in the nearby coastal town of Kotor in Montenegro and offers to exchange Italian POWs for gasoline. Infuriated, general Von Bauer refuses, but when Mihailovi threatens to notify the Italian High Command of his decision, Gestapo colonel Wilhelm Brockner orders Von Bauer to comply. ........

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