Rainbow (1944 film)
Rainbow Ukrainian translit. Veselka, Russian translit. Raduga, is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based on her novel, Tecza. The film depicts life in a Germanoccupied village in Ukraine at the beginning of World War II from the view point of the terrorized villagers.
Brilliantly acted by virtually everyone in the cast, Rainbow is a remarkable achievement, one that deserves to be better known outside of Russia. It has been described as the most powerful and effective of the Soviet propaganda films produced during the war. The film was recommended to President Franklin Roosevelt by the American ambassador in Moscow in early 1944. Roosevelt cabled Ambassador W. Averell Harriman in Moscow on March 14, 1944 with the message that he had viewed the film, and found it so beautifully and dramatically presented that it required little translation. FDR stated that he hoped it could be shown to the American public.
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